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and, as before, tended with domestic devotion. Honours came. 

 The Queen, by the hand of her Minister, conferred an heredi- 

 tary distinction. Commercial gratitude was shown in the shape 

 of a magnificent testimoniah Political addresses gratefully 

 acknowledged. But as he stood on its brink, and looked 

 steadily into the black gulf — probably next to a mental onlook 

 — an humble onlook — towards the promised land — he found 

 comfort in the doubting retrospect of 65 years, of a busy, a well- 

 spent, and an unselfish life, which, on the 17th May, 1874,. 

 death came to close in peace. 



Last scene of all — the funeral train — wending: on foot throusrh 

 the meadows he so much loved to cultivate. We may not draw 

 the veil which shrouds domestic grief; but men stood around 

 that open grave — many in person, more in spirit — hard men of 

 business, used to weigh and estimate the gold of character, with- 

 out regard to its glitter — they desired to render a just tribute to 

 the memory of a true and tender-hearted friend, an able and 

 trusted colleague. The grave has closed, but the memory lives, 

 and shall live, it may be throughout all the world, as the memory 

 of one of a goodly fellowship — the patriotic benefactors of British 

 Agriculture. 



XXII. — Report on the Composition of Thirteen Samples of 

 Peruvian Guano, sent hj the Secretary of the Admiralty to the 

 Royal Ayricultural Society of England. By Dr. AUGUSTUS 

 VOELCKER, F.R.S., Consulting Chemist to the Society. 



These samples were sent to England in sealed bottles, in Her 

 Majesty's ship Petrel., from Callao. The bottles were opened 

 by me on the 9th of June, 1874, and submitted to careful 

 analyses. 



Five of the samples were taken from the guano-deposits of 

 Pabillon de Pica, three from the guano-deposits of Punta de 

 Lobos, and five from the deposits of Huanillos. 



The samples were labelled as follows : — 



Pabillox de Pica Guakos. 



1. Guano deposit of PaWUon de Pica at La Cueva, talien at 25 feet below 

 the surface. 



2. Guano deposit of Pabillon de Pica at San Lorenzo, taken at 15 feet below 

 the surface. 



3. Guano deposit of Pabillon de Pica at La Barloventa (white guano), taken 

 at the surface of a large deposit not yet marked. 



