96 Obituary — Senry Michael Jenkins, F.G. 8. 



headed corn and flour merchant, died whilst his son was yet an 

 infant, and his mother having been married to Mr. Box, corn 

 merchant, young Jenkins was in due time sent to Mi\ Browning's 

 school near Bath. He showed great aptitude for business affairs, 

 first in his step-father's office, then as barter-clerk on a voyage to 

 the west coast of Africa, undertaken for his health (for he early 

 developed symptoms of asthma, from attacks of which he was always 

 liable in unfavourable conditions of the weather), afterwards in the 

 shipowner's office in Bristol. H. M. Jenkins came to London in 

 March, 1859, having been appointed Assistant to Prof. Eupert Jones, 

 in the Geological Society, Somerset House. 



Here he won the good opinion of the officers and Council by his 

 intelligence and aptitude for his duties, and on the removal of Prof. 

 T. Eupert Jones, F.E.S., from the Geological Society to the Eoyal 

 Military College, Sandhurst, Mr. Jenkins was appointed to succeed 

 him in 1862 as Assistant Secretary. He was elected a Fellow of 

 the Geological Society in 1863, and edited the Quarterly Journal 

 with marked success from 1862 to 1868 ; at the end of the latter 

 year he was chosen Secretary to the Eoyal Agricultural Society of 

 England, a post which he has held for eighteen years with marked 

 success, not only as Editor of the Society's Journal, but also as 

 Secretary and Manager of its Annual Shows. 



Mr. Jenkins's career, extending over twenty-seven years, has been 

 one of steady upward progress, due to his indomitalDle energy and 

 great capacity for mastering rapidly the details of all matters, 

 whether scientific or commercial, which it was needful for him to 

 understand and decide about judicially. His business shrewdness 

 enabled him to save the Eoyal Agricultiiral Society hundreds of 

 pounds annually, and his scientific ability as Editor has brought 

 their Journal up to a standard of excellence which few Societies can 

 equal and probably none surpass. 



Mr. Jenkins was, in the early days of his career, for some time 

 assistant editor to Mr. Samuelson, in conducting the Quarterly 

 Journal of Science, to the pages of which he contributed many 

 Eeviews and Notices, also to the Geological Magazine and the 

 Quarterly Journal. We give the titles as under : — 



" On the Tertiary Mollusca from Mount Sela, in the Island of Java." Quart. Journ, 



Geol. Soc. 1864, vol. xx. pp. 45-73, pi. vi.-vii. 

 " On the Occurrence of a Eecent Species of Trigonia in Tertiary Deposits in AustraKa." 



Geol. Mag. 1866, Vol. III. p. 201, PI. X. 

 "Hypothetical Continents." Intellectual Ohserver, 1866, vol. x. pp. 88-97. 

 "Brackish Water Fossils in Crete." Quart. Journ. Science, 1864, vol. i. pp. 413- 



421 (Plate No. 3). 

 " Strata Identified by Organic Eemains." Quart. Journ. Sci. 1865, vol. ii. pp. 622- 



630 (Plate No. 8). 

 "Amber; its Origin and History." Quart. Journ. Sci. 1868, vol. v. pp. 167-185 



(with a Map and Plate) . 

 " On PalcBocoryne'''' (Joint paper with Prof. Duncan, P.E.S.), Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 



1869. 

 The numerous writings of his later years have been directed to 

 Agriculture in all its branches, and in the future his name will 

 be best remembered by these ; but his memory will be cherished by 

 all who knew him, whether Geologists or Agriculturists. 



