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" Farmer's Calendar," and in 1774 his " Political 

 Arithmetic." In 1784 he began the publication of the 

 "Annals of Agriculture," which was continued for forty- 

 five volumes. His " Tour in Ireland " and his " Travels 

 in France," however, are the works by which he is now 

 best remembered. In 1792 he was appointed secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture, which was then just formed 

 under the presidency of Sir John Sinclair, and in this 

 capacity his services were of the greatest value in the 

 preparation of the agricultural surveys of the English 

 counties. Young's works have appeared in almost every 

 language in Europe, and were translated into Russian 

 by the order of the Empress Catherine, and they seem 

 to have been almost more appreciated abroad than they 

 were in England. His latter years were attended with 

 distressing bodily afflictions — blindness, and a painful 

 internal malady. He died, we are told by Dr. Paris, on 

 the 12th of April, 1820, at his house in Sackville Street, 

 London, " after taking a glass of lemonade, and expres- 

 sing himself easy and satisfied." Young was succeeded 

 by his daughter, who died in 1851, and she was succeeded 

 by her nephew, the grandson of Arthur Young, who died 

 at Bradfield, January, 1896, and the Young family is 

 now extinct, after a landed existence there of about 350 

 years. 



Young's latter years seem to have been largely 

 occupied in composing his great unpublished work, 

 entitled " The Elements and Practice of Agriculture," 

 the existence of which few people can be aware of, if I 

 may judge by the fact that no reference to it has been 

 made by the writer on Young in the " Encyclopsedia 

 Britannica," from which, I may add, I have taken the 

 list of works given above. Last July I accidentally 

 heard of his work, which had been presented to the 

 British Museum by the widow of Arthur Young's 

 grandson, and at once went to look at it, in the hope 

 that I should find something of value with reference to 

 the subject I am now writing on. I was^sked by one 



