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1% Memoriam : 
Cottages at Manchester (1869), and he reported on the trials 
of Implements at Oxford (1870). 
The Journal contains nothing else from his pen until 1873, 
when he undertook at short notice to write the Report on tlie 
Trials of Ploughs and Harrows at Hull. In 1874 he was a 
Judge of Waggons, Carts, &c., at Bedford, and in 1877 of Sheaf 
Binders at Liverpool. Between these two dates he had acted as 
chairman of the English Judges of Machinery at the Philadelphia 
Centennial Exhibition, and his elaborate report on the inte- 
resting exhibits of American and Canadian machinery shown 
there is the first paper in the Journal for 1877. At the Bristol 
Meeting in 1878 he was again a Judge and Reporter on the 
Trials of Sheaf Binders and on the Miscellaneous Implements ; 
and in the same year he acted as one of the Judges at the Great 
Exhibition at Paris. 
In 1879 he was appropriately selected as the Reporter on 
the very extensive and varied collection of Implements at the 
Metropolitan exhibition of the Society at Kilburn, as well as on 
the trials of Railway Waggons intended for the conveyance of 
fresh provisions. In 1881 he was Judge of and Reporter on 
the Miscellaneous Implements exhibited at Derby ; and he ful- 
filled the same office at York (1883). In 1884 he varied his 
occupations on behalf of the Society by acting as Judge and 
Repoi'ter on the Farm Prize Competition in connection with 
the Shrewsbury Meeting. His last appointment by the Society 
was as Judge of Miscellaneous Implements at Newcastle (1887). 
He was so ill at the time of the Show that he had abruptly to 
break off his work and return home ; and though he managed 
to attend and to report upon the Society's Potato-Raising Trials 
at Gosforth in the following October, his health was very un- 
satisfactory. A malignant internal tumour, for which there was 
no hope of cure, at length carried him off on the 19th February 
of this year. 
In addition to his work for this Society and for the Field, 
Mr. Coleman acted as Assistant Commissioner for the seven 
northern counties of York, Northumberland, Durham, Cumber- 
land, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Chester under the Duke 
of Richmond's Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression. 
His report on his inquiries in these counties was remarkably 
able, and much appreciated and cited. He also found time to 
bring out in 1875 a largo illustrated volume on " The Cattle of 
Great Britain," in which he was assisted by some of the first 
authorities on the vespeclive breeds. I'his was followed, two 
years later, by a similar book on sheep and pigs. His last ex- 
tended literary work was in connection with the revision and 
