The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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This was the year of the Kilburn Show, where foreign agri- 
culture had a remarkable illustration both as regards its breeds 
of cattle and its dairv produce in the Show-yard ; and where 
Mr. Jenkins's own proposition of a historical display of the 
implements of English agriculture was carried out ; where the 
Societv, we may add, lost such a quantity of money, owing to 
the weather, and won such a quantity of reputation, thanks to 
the energy and wisdom of its leaders, on which, after all, money 
and prosperity depend. 
The volume for 1880 has several of Mr. Jenkins's extensions 
of his wonderful note-book as a traveller ; the details of 
market-gardening, and the cultivation of particular crops, and 
the character of the petite culture generally in the Xorth-West 
of France are discussed and illustrated. 
Thanks to the energy of the many Committees into which 
the Council of the Society divides itself, the ' Journal ' has been 
gradually becoming mor<« full of every extension of scientific 
and practical information. This is seen in the reports of the 
officers of the Society — its chemical and botanical and entomo- 
logical advisers. Dr. \ oelcker and Mr. Carruthers, and now 
Miss Ormerod, its official authorities, have been always full of 
life: and Sir John Lawes and Dr. Gilbert — wonderfully public- 
spirited volunteers — are still as fruitful as ever they have been. 
In 1881 Mr. Jenkins contributes, from his ^Netherlands note- 
book, papers on flax-growing, on artificial butter-making, and 
on peat-land reclamation. They are extracts from his Report to 
the Royal Commission on Agriculture, on which throughout the 
year he had been at work, as we shall have hereafter to relate. 
In 1882 further Reports on ^Netherlands Agriculture, and in 
particular on its Joint Stock Farming, as illustrated by the expe- 
rience of Mr. Van den Bosch of Wilhelminadorp, near Goes — 
a large farm which has been known to some of us for more than 
forty years, and has always seemed to me one of the model 
farms of Europe. Dairy-farming in the Netherlands is another 
extract from the Report to the Royal Agricultural Commission. 
A further contribution ^from his pen is a memoir of his friend 
Thomas Aveling, who had been an efficient member of the 
Council. 
In the Volume for 1883 there are still further extracts 
from the Blue Book of the Royal Commission — this time on 
Dairying in Denmark, and on Continental Poultry-keeping. 
The Volumes appear to be increasing in the attention which 
they now pay to the Live Stock of the Farm ; Half-bred horses 
by Lord Cathcart ; Shorthorns in England and Ireland by Mr. J. 
Macdonald, then Editor of the ' Farmer's Gazette,' Dublin ; the 
Liver-fluke ; the History of the Woburn Cattle-Feeding Ex- 
