The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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quirj. Mr. Jenkins's own share in this inquiry included 
Reports on the Agriculture of the North of France, Belgium^ 
Holland and Denmark. These are a library of information, 
in which national and industrial statistics, local agricultural 
history, with detailed examples of every branch of farming, are 
accumulated. They were presented to both Houses of Parlia- 
ment in 1882, and are the result of successive journeys in the 
previous year. They meet the wants of almost every reader 
who shall approach them, whether he be a student or a practical 
man. In the former case he will obtain all he needs to know 
of the history of agriculture and its general relations to the 
industry of the country, the agricultural institutions of the 
country, and its methods of agricultural education. In the latter 
case he will find detailed accounts of methods in the field, 
in the homestead, and in the dairy, elaborate specifications of 
special crop cultivation, and examples enough of successful 
management on particular farms. 
Mr. Jenkins's Report on Agricultural Education in North 
Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and in the 
United Kingdom — to the Royal Commissioners on Technical 
Education, and through them presented to both Houses of 
Parliament in the year 1883 — is an extraordinary proof of his 
thoroughness and industry. In an introduction he declares that 
his object has been to describe not only the highest agricultural 
education suitable for gentlemen farming their own lands, and 
for the largest tenant-farmers, and for land agents, but the inter- 
mediate education suitable lor bailiffs and small tenant-farmers, 
and the lower agricultural education for farm labourers and 
peasant proprietors ; also the instruction in the rudiments of 
agriculture given in elementary country schools. This plan he 
carried out with certain variations, owing to the different agri- 
cultural circumstances of the several countries visited. By 
personal inspection, by correspondence with the authorities in 
charge of the different educational institutions, by correspondence 
with Government departments in each of the countries, and by 
acquaintance with the whole literature of the subject, which has 
long been voluminous in most of these countries, he accumulated 
the materials which enable the reader, with whatever want he 
may approach the subject, or in whatever country he may be 
specially: interested, to find virtually all the information that 
he requires. His generous appreciation of the labours of 
previous writers and workers on the subject is not the least 
interesting of his characteristics, as I for one very gratefully 
acknowledge. 
Speaking of North Germany, he relates the history of his 
subject during the last 150 years — its progress during the 
