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that full credit should be given his colleague, and often paid tribute 

 to his scientitic insight and sj^steniatic methods. His high scientific 

 attainments were recognized by man}- learned societies in his election 

 to honorarj^ membership and to high office. He was appointed Sib- 

 thorpian professor of rural econoniA' in the University of Oxford in 

 1884:, and reappointed for a second period of three years in 1887. He 

 was the recipient of man}' and varied honors, alone and in conjunction 

 with Sir John, and shared in the honor of the jubilee celebration at 

 Rothamsted in 1893, being elevated to knighthood in that year. 



Sir Henr}^ Gilbert visited this country on three occasions. In 1882 

 and 1881 he traveled extensivelj^ in the United States and Canada to 

 study the conditions of agriculture; and his last visit, in 1893, will be 

 remembered with nuich pleasure b}' all who met him. The series of 

 lectures delivered by him on that occasion, under the provisions of the 

 Lawes Agricultural Trust, was a most interesting and valuable sum- 

 mary of the agricultural investigations at Rothamsted in certain lines 

 during a period of fifty years. Upon the preparation of these lectures 

 and their subsequent publication as a bulletin of this Office, Sir Henry 

 bestowed a great amount of time and pains, and it was evident that he 

 regarded them as possibly the final summing up of his and Sir John's 

 lifelong labors in some of their most important lines. 



Of late, although in quite feeble health, Sir Henry took a deep 

 interest in the lectures of Dr. Bernard Dyer, delivered in this coun- 

 try in 1900, and in the final preparation of these for the press. Indeed, 

 Dr. Dyer, in his introduction to these lectures, states that "aver}' 

 large share of the credit should go to Sir Henry Gilbert, who has 

 spent infinite pains in aiding and advising me in this work." His 

 natural interest in having the results of the soil work at Rothamsted 

 brought together and adequately presented was quickened by the desire 

 to carry out the oft-expressed wish of Sir John Lawes that this might 

 be done. It is gratifying to know that the proof sheets of these lec- 

 tures reached him over a month before his death, and were a source 

 of satisfaction to him. 



The services of these lifelong collaborators at Rothamsted can hardly 

 be separated or individualized. The qualifications of the one strength- 

 ened and supplemented those of the other. The application of the 

 results of their combined labors and the influence of Rothamsted on 

 agricultural investigation in general are world-wide. In the history 

 of agricultural science, as in the current literature, each will be best 

 known by the association of his name with that of the other, and for 

 a long time to come the work of " Lawes and Gilbert" will constitute 

 a basis for practice as well as a starting point for further investigation. 



The system of agricultural education in England which is carried on 

 under the county councils has never been clearly understood in this 



