The late Sir B. T. Brandreth Gibbs. 613 
him to deal patiently and successfully with the multitude of 
interests involved in a great Show of live-stock and of imple- 
ments — contributed to, as it has always been, by a multitude of 
exhibitors — and the punctuality, precision, and regularity of a 
perfect routine, by whose orderliness and exactness the work of 
that office was both better done and made much easier to do. 
THE LATE SUl B. T. BRA>'D11ETU GIBUS. 
On the occasion of the late Liverpool Show in 1877, Mr. Gibbs 
was good enough to send me his Recollections of the Liverpool 
Show in 1842, when for the third time he Avas thus helping his 
brother in the Stewardship of the Yard. The following extracts 
from his letter on that occasion are interesting, not only for 
the points of historical interest which it records, but for the 
