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as affected by the change in the price of ammonia, we have 
thought it desirable to carry the subject further, and to en- 
deavour to put forward a scheme for the valuation of unexhausted 
manures also. The results will doubtless require revision from 
time to time, as the value of manure-constituents in the market 
changes, and perhaps also in other ways, as knowledge advances, 
and experience is gained. But the passing of the Act of 1883, 
and the problems and the discussions to which it must neces- 
sarily give rise, seemed to render such an attempt very opportune 
at the present time. It is to be understood, however, that in 
the use of the Table, the special circumstances of each case 
must be taken into account, and the actual figures adopted, or 
modification made, accordingly. Independently of such direct 
application of the results, it will be a point of importance 
gained, if valuations come to be made on the basis of manure- 
value, and not of cost ; and perhaps one of still greater impor- 
tance, if the scale we have submitted should lead to the general 
recognition of the fact that unexhausted manure-value should 
be subject to compensation, from whatever food it may have 
been derived ; thus enabling the farmer to use any food that 
may be the most advantageous at the time, without fear of 
losing his claim to compensation under amicable arrangements. 
At any rate, as we have given the data on which our estimates 
are founded, and explained the method by which they have 
teen obtained, those interested in this most difficult subject 
have the means of forming their own conclusions on the results 
arrived at. 
XXV.— m late Sir B. T. Brandreth Gibhs. By J. CHALMERS 
MOKTON, Editor of the ' Agricultural Gazette.' 
The readers of this volume of our ' Journal ' will expect some 
reference in its pages to the very great loss which they have 
sustained by the recent death of one of the oldest members of 
the Society, who was also unquestionably one of its oldest and 
most devoted servants. Than the late Sir Brandreth Gibbs, I 
do not suppose any one can be named whose whole life has 
been more actively devoted, especially through the influence 
and agency of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, to 
the promotion of the interests of English Agriculturists. An 
original member of the Society — on its formation, at the instance 
of Lord Spencer, Mr. Philip Pusey, the Duke of Richmond, 
Mr. Henry Handley, and Mr. William Shaw, all now passed 
away — he had trodden every step in the ranks of the great 
