546 Bepori of the Senior Steiuard of StocJc at Windsor. 
most perfect taste, reflecting the greatest credit upon all con- 
cerned, and the eminent firms named liave every reason to be 
proud of their share in it. I should mention that Her Majesty- 
was graciously pleased to accept the whole as it stood as a gift 
from the respective firms for erection at Osborne. 
I have now exhausted my list. I have noticed, besides the 
implements and machines to which Prizes or Silver Medals were 
awarded, a number of others which the Judges considered worthy 
of special notice, and I have also shortly described a few small 
but useful articles which are easily overlooked amongst a large 
number of more important ones, but for which almost every 
farmer at some time or other feels a want. 
It now only remains for me, on behalf of the Implement 
Judges, to acknowledge the assistance and guidance they re- 
ceived from the Stewards and the Engineers of the Society during 
the eight days on which they were engaged, and the courtesy 
and promptness which they met with at all the stands. On my 
own behalf I must personally thank my colleagues for their 
valuable help, and specially the Engineers, Mr. Anderson (whom 
I should wish to congratulate upon his appointment as Director- 
General of Ordnance Factories), and Mr. Courtney, for very 
kindly aid, without which I could not have hoped properly to 
fulfil the honourable task allotted to me by the Council of the 
Royal Agricultural Society. 
XXVIII. — Report of the Senior Steward of Stoch at Windsor. 
By the late W. H. Wakefield. 
[A melancholy interest attaches to the subjoined report, as the 
life of its kindly and accomplished writer came to a sudden 
and untimely end in the hunting-field on Friday, November 
8, 1889, from heart-disease. Only two days before, he had 
been present at the Council meeting at Hanover Square, and 
had taken, as was his wont, an active part in the discussions 
which then arose. Mr. Wakefield was elected a member 
of Council at the General Meeting held on May 22, 1871, 
and was appointed a Vice-President on November 3, 1886, 
in the room of Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart. During his 
eighteen years of service on the Council he took a very active 
share in its debates, and in the deliberations of the Committees 
on which he sat. He was first elected a Steward of Live- 
stock for the Hull Meeting of 1873, and retired as Senior 
