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The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
of Wales, and our President, Lord Egerton of Tatton, added 
their wreaths to those by which the coffin was covered. Mr. 
Wells, a former President, and many members of the Council, 
were present, besides representatives of various agricultural and 
other societies and agricultural journals. 
Postscript. 
The Society has since received from the Societe des 
Agriculteurs de France, of which Mr. Jenkins was Foreign 
Correspondent for England, the following extract from its 
minutes : — 
" M. Louis Passey, Permanent Secretary, announces to the Society the 
death of Mr. Jenkins, Foreign Correspondent, and expresses himself in these 
words : — ' I liave the painful duty to announce to you the death of Mr. Jen- 
kins, the eminent Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 
Foreign Correspondent of the Economic, Statistical, and Agricultural Legis- 
lative Department. Mr. Jenkins died on Wednesday morning, 24th inst. 
(December), at his residence at New Barnet. His death is a loss difficult 
to replace to the Society to which he had belonged for more than twelve 
years, and to which he had given an activity, and a vitality, without 
precedent, whether by the ability with which he managed the annual 
meetings, or by the variety of his works. 
" ' In spite of his ofBcial occupation, as Secretary of that illustrious Society, 
Mr. Jenkins had devoted his energy to vast enterprises of enquiry under the 
patronage of the Eoyal Commission appointed to enquire into the question of 
agricultural depression, and presided over by the Duke of Richmond. An 
intrepid explorer, as well as a conscientious observer, he was charged with 
missions in France and in Holland, which resulted in his sending to his 
Government refwrts full of information and valuable mtelligence, which are 
hardly of less interest to us than they are to his fellow-countrymen. 
"'His papers, published in the 'Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
Society,' treat of many questions of great interest even for France. I would 
distinguish amongst the most important his works upon ensilage, upon the 
milk industry of Denmark, upon agricultural education, and most recent of 
them aU the memoir upon the culture of tobacco in France, in Belgium, 
and in the Palatinat, which appeared in the last number of the Journal 
of the Society, and which constitutes the most complete resume of ^every- 
thing which concerns this industrial cultivation from the three points of 
view, the cultivation of the plant, its economical importance, and its fiscal 
value. We lose in Mr. Jenkins more than a member of our Society; we lose 
a friend of France. He loved and appreciated our country ; and if I am not 
mistaken he desired that his children should be educated here. 
" ' Ou these various grounds our loss is at le ast as great as that of our neigh- 
bours, and I believe that I rightly interpret the wish of our Society in pro- 
posing to send in their name to the Society with w hich he was more directly 
connected, a letter of condolence, which may express our regrets.' " 
On the first subsequent meeting of the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, the President, Lord Egerton 
of Tatton, thus referred to the loss which the Society had 
suffered : — " Mr. Jenkins possessed a marvellous combination of 
