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In Memoriawi : 
Mr. Morton's most valuable lecture on Agricultural Education. 
This was the immediate cause of the appointment by the Society 
of its Education Committee, which has since done such good work, 
and for which Mr. Morton acted as examiner from the commence- 
ment of the Society's Junior Examinations in 1874 until his 
death. In Volume IV. (1868) appeared a Report on Town Milk, 
the quality and circumstances of which at that time received 
much less attention than they do now. In the next volume 
(1869) was a Report on the Agricultural Lessons of 1868, which 
year was characterised by a warm spring and a hot dry summer. 
A further Report appeared in the tenth volume on Spring Sown 
Wheats in 1873, when a larger extent of wheat was sown 
out of the usual season than had ever before been the case in 
this country. In Volume XI. (1875) was a Report on Cheese- 
making in Home Dairies and in Factories, and in Volume XII. 
(1876) was a full and most interesting paper on Half-a-dozen 
Sewage Farms, selected as fairly representing the various soils 
and circumstances under which Sewage Irrigation had been 
adopted in various parts of the country. 
Mr. Morton was the Reporter on the Dairy and Stock Farms 
in the Liverpool Farm Prize Competition of 1877, and the similar 
Competition at Preston in 1885. Both these reports are charac- 
terised by his wonderful power of observation and skill in arrang- 
ing his facts. He also contributed the paper on Dairy Farming 
to the Memoir on the Agriculture of England and AVales pre- 
pared under the direction of the Society for the International 
Congress at Paris in 1878. In Volume XVI. (1880) was a very 
exhaustive paper from his j^en summing up the experiences of 
the year of dismal agricultural record, 1879. 
The ripe experience and powers of memory of Mr. Morton 
made him of late the biographer |?ar excellence of his colleagues 
of the past. Thus he wrote in the twentieth volume of the 
Journal a sketch of Mr. George Turner, like himself an original 
Member of the Society ; in Volume XXI. the biogi'aphy of the 
late Sir Brandreth Gibbs, for more than thirty years Honorary 
Director of the Show-yards, which contains much interesting in- 
formation about the earlier country meetings of the Society. 
Finally he wrote in the April number of the Journal for last 
year a full and sympathetic memoir of the late Secretaiy of the 
Society, Mr. Jenkins. 
These brief references to his work in one publication suffice 
to show the broad sympathies of the man, and his keen insight 
into agricultural problems as they arose for discussion and 
settlement. Mr. Dent, who, as a former Chairman of the 
Journal and Education Committees of the Society and in other 
