The End of the Second Series of the Journal. 787 
Josiali Goodwin, tlien, as now, the Editor of the Bath and West 
of England Society's Journal. Mr. Goodwin is indeed one of 
the few who still survive of those who were associated with the 
earlier volumes of the Series. At the beginning of 18G9 the late 
Mr. H. M. Jenkins was appointed to the conjoint offices of 
Secretary and Editor, and this arrangement has since been con- 
tinued, the Secretary of the Society being responsible under the 
Journal Committee for the editorship of the Journal. Thus 
there have been three changes of Editor during the twenty-five 
years ; but the guidance of the Journal Committee has secured 
throughout that continuity of policy and record which it has 
been one of the principal endeavours of the Journal to maintain. 
There is not a department of agricultural science or practice 
which has not been dealt with more or less exhaustively in the 
Series now closed. The cultivation of the land, the crops which 
it bears, the conditions, meteorological and otherwise, which 
affect it, and the insect foes which attack it and its produce, 
form the subject of articles which are all instructive, and many 
of which contain absolutely new facts. The growing of wheat, 
for example, has presented itself in a novel light since Lawes 
and Gilbert published their reports on its continuous cultivation 
on the same land (Vol. XXV. 1st Series : Vol. XX. 2nd Series), 
as a part of the unrivalled series of investigations which for 
nearly half a century have been carried on at Kothamsted, and 
for the perpetuation of which Sir John Lawes has now munifi- 
cently provided. Such articles, again, as those by Dr. Watt 
and Mr. W. E. Bear on Indian Wheat, published last year, give 
the home-gi'ower information which cannot be otherwise than 
invaluable to him as to the competition of foreign rivals in 
what was once regarded as the sheet-anchor of British agri- 
culture. 
In the growth of wheat, and indeed of all cereal crops, 
the teachings of Rothamsted have recently been usefully 
supplemented by the annual reports on the experiments at 
Woburn, which have for the last twelve years been carried 
out by the Society itself through the liberality of the Duke 
of Bedford. On all matters of agricultural chemistry the 
scientific papers of the late Dr. Augustus Voelcker, and of 
his son and successor as Consulting Chemist, have kept the 
members fully informed ; and the annual reports on the work 
of the laboratory have each year grown in interest and value. 
Undoubtedly one of the most important steps ever taken by the 
Society in the general interests of the agricultural community 
was the determination arrived at by the Council, in 1870, to 
publish in the Journal and in the agricultural press, quarterly 
