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Obituary Notices of Deceased Members. 
For many years M. Trehonnais had, by his writings on English 
and French agriculture, contributed to the maintenance of a friendly 
intercourse between the farmers and breeders of the two countries. 
The Journal d' Agriculture Pratique (January 16, 1890) remarks 
that he was " incontestably the French writer who best knew 
English agriculture." He especially interested himself in the im- 
provement of live stock, and the introduction of improved British 
varieties — notably shorthorns — into France. In his Revue Agricole 
de I'Angleterre, published in 1859, he gave an interesting and highly 
appreciative account of the history and work of " la Society Royale 
d'Angleterre " up to that date. In 1876 M. De la Trehonnais 
wrote an account of the Paris Sewage Irrigation at Gennevilliers, 
which appeared in Vol. XII. of the Second Series of the Journal. 
Amongst other distinguished Members whose loss the Society 
has had recently to deplore are the following : — 
Viscount Templetown (died January 4, 1890). Lord Temple- 
town had been a member of the Society for forty-two years, having 
been elected in February 1847. He was a representative peer for 
Ireland, and was Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, with the com- 
mand of the Southern District, from 1870 until his retirement from 
the army in 1877. 
Mr. C. It. M. Talbot, MP. (died January 17, 1890). Mr. Talbot, 
the " Father of the House of Commons," who had sat for the county 
of Glamorgan, or a division thereof, continuously since 1830, was 
one of the oldest members of the Society, having been elected on 
August 7, 1844. 
Earl Sydney (died February 14, 1890) had been a member of the 
Society since June 29, 1840. 
Lord Dacre (died February 27, 1890), who is succeeded in the 
oldest barony of England by another member of the Society — 
Viscount Hampden — became a subscriber to this Society in May, 
1840, and a Governor in 1875. 
Lord Auckland (died February 27, 1890) had been a member 
since 1862, and quite recently had taken an active part in connec- 
tion with the invitation from Doncaster for the Society's Country 
Meeting of 1891. 
The Duke of Manchester (died March 21, 1890), had been a 
subscriber to the Society since April 1856, and a Life Governor 
since March 1875. 
