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In Memoriam : 
ground that it would be useful for Ms private chai-ity purse, an 
observation wliicli (said his Lordship) was highly characteristic 
of the man. 
At the meeting of the Council held on June 6, Earl Cathcart 
moved the following resolution, which was earned unani- 
mously : — 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England receive the 
announcement of the death of Mr John Chalmers Morton with feeling-a of 
great regret. This feeling of regret they desire to record, and request the 
President, on the part of the Council, to convey to the family of a hite 
highly-esteemed fellow-labourer the expression of their appreciation, concern, 
and sympathy. Mr. Morton was an original member of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England, and during the whole period of its existence 
his busy pen has been continuously employed in furthering the best interests 
of scientific agriculture. Every page of his voluminous writings is indica- 
tive of the writer's character: Idndly, able, and perceptive, he was, above 
all things, a conspicuously fail- and just man. 
Ko better epitaph than this could have been desired by 
Mr. Morton, and no added words could increase its value or 
significance. 
Charles Randell. 
Great as the losses to the Society and the Journal have been 
by the deaths of the three men whose lives have been imper- 
fectly sketched above, an even greater loss has been suffered by 
the decease of one who, if not directly a contributor to the 
Journal, appears again and again in its pages as one of the most 
prominent exponents of '• jiractice with science."' The farming 
experiences of Charles Eandell are quoted by writer after writer 
and in volume after volume as worthy to be studied and followed, 
and, in any general inquiry that was on foot, the facts which he 
contributed were rightly held to merit particular consideration 
and comment. Mr. Eandell was, therefore, in the best and 
most useful sense of the word, a contributor to the Journal. 
Happily, a far abler pen than that of the present writer 
gives expression in a foregoing page of this nitmber to the magni- 
tude of Mr. Randell's services to the Society, and all that it 
will be necessary to do here will be to give a few facts and dates 
in his life which do not come within the scope of the personal 
recollections so vividly sketched by Mr. Dent. 
Charles Randell was born on the last day of the year 1810, 
and was, therefore, in his seventy-eighth year at the time of his 
death. At a very early age he entered the office of his uncle, 
Mr. Richards, a land-agent in good practice in Lincoln's Inn 
Fields. !Mr. Richards negotiated for the father of the late 
