Tlie late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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Educational Dairy, and Earl Spencer's Prize-Farm system are all 
described. There is, in a concluding summary, a comparison of 
the different countries under the several divisions which have 
been enumerated ; and there is a final chapter of recommen- 
dations which well deserves the study of all who are interested 
in the promotion of Agricultural education. How complete 
and thorough the whole work has been appears from the 
index of eighteen double-column pages, containing nearly 
800 references. 
International Conference on Education, — Mr. Jenkins's 
paper on Farm Schools and School Farms, read before the 
Conference during the Health Exhibition at South Kensington 
in 1882, must be merely named. In it he calls attention to the 
Landwirthschafts-Scliulen of Germany, and the establishments * 
known as Ecoles Pratiques Agriculture in France, as the 
models of school farms which he would like to see established 
in this country — where there are no establishments of the kind, 
if we except the " Aspatria Agricultural School" in Cumber- 
land, and the " King Edward School " in Aberdeenshire. The 
" farm school," on the other hand, is represented in Germany 
by a large number of Ackerbaus- Schulen, and by a score or more 
of Fermes-ecoles in France. These institutions, to which re- 
ference has been already made, are referred to in detail in the 
address given on this occasion, which with the subsequent discus- 
sion will be found fully reported in the volume devoted to the 
Conference, published for the Executive Council of the Inter- 
national Health Exhibition (Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ld.). The 
paper is full of details and suggestions, which ought to lead to 
practical results — the aim being to help the education, not only 
of the future farmer, but of the intelligent bailiff, on whose 
assistance English landowners are becoming to a large extent 
dependent. 
French Peasant-Farmers' Seed Fund. — It is perhaps 
somewhat out of place to refer here to Mr, Jenkins's services 
in connection with the French Peasant-Farmers' Seed Fund, at 
the close of the Franco-German war, for these belonged to his 
earliest agricultural years. The French Peasant-Farmers' Seed 
Fund occupied him during the autumn of 1870 and the early 
spring of 1871. Mr. James Howard, with whom the idea 
had originated, had corresponded with M. Drouyn de Lhuys 
in reference to a project for supplying seed to the small 
cultivators of the invaded regions. The correspondence was 
published in the agricultural papers at the instance of 
