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described, sections are given of the modes of ventilation, which 
might be made available for ships, and were actually in operation 
in the Bristol sewers. " It should be noted that the voyage to 
Bristol includes seven miles up the Avon, where there is little or 
no ventilation unless there is a strong breeze." Bristol fair is 
described — " the cattle market is a large yard enclosed by a stone 
wall, floored with limestone blocks, divided into sections bv 
walling, all the walls and floor well cleansed after every market ;" 
and arrangements generally are praised. Full details are given 
on the following day of a foot-and-mouth-diseased cow which 
had been brought from Stone exactly three weeks before ; and the 
possible history of her infection is elaborately discussed. At Cork, 
on September 4th, again we have the miseries, and what attempts 
to lessen them had been made, elaborately discussed. Septem- 
ber 7th at Waterford, September 9th at Cardiff. He has . been 
zigzagging across the Irish Channel, investigating elaborately 
and entering fully in his note-book, day by day and on the spot, 
every detail of information he could gather. At Hull on Sept. 
17th, at Hamburg on Sept. 20th, at Hull again on his return, 
at Dublin on Oct. 3rd, and Ballinasloe on Oct. 5th, where the 
details of the big fair are described, — " thousands of cattle packed 
in an enclosure without divisions for separating the lots, all 
attempts at inspection therefore altogether abortive." At Liver- 
pool on Oct. 7th, at Rotterdam on Oct. 11th, at Deptford on 
his return — statistics, individual items, memoranda, questions 
and answers, conversations, all elaborately reported — surely there 
never was a more exhaustive investigation carried out, with 
more constant persistence, to its conclusion. 
It would prolong this memoir unduly if 1 were to describe the 
following volumes in detail ; therefore, for the most part, for the 
future ^Ir. Jenkins's work as a writer rather than as an editor 
will be referred to. It may, however, be mentioned here 
that the statistical preface to the several volumes is, under his 
guidance, becoming fuller, both more extended and more detailed, 
as the years run on. In 1874, I find that not only is there the 
usual abstract of the agricultural statistics of the year, but that 
the number of men returned as agricultural labourers in succes- 
sive decades forms the subject of a table ; and the density of the 
live-stock population of the country in comparison with that of 
its human population is extracted from the Census of 1871. The 
Irish butter trade too is the subject of one of the paragraphs 
in this section of the 'Journal.' Mr. Jenkins's own contribution 
to the volume for 1874 is a Report on the Cultivation of Pota- 
toes, with special reference to the potato disease. It was to some 
extent the outcome of a prize wliich had been offered by Lord 
Cathcart, then President, in connection with that subject. An 
