Addresses to Sir John Lcnves and Dr. Gilbert. 
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bert on Saturday July 29, upon the 
occasion of the celebration of the Jubi- 
lee of the Rothamsted Experiments. 
Both Addresses were formally ap- 
proved and adopted, as below : — 
To Sir Johx Benxet Lawes, Bart., D.C.L., 
LL.D., F.R.S., &c., &c. 
Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England. 
The Koyal Agricultural Society of England 
by its Council gladly embraces the occasion 
of the Jubilee of the Rothamsted Experi- 
ments to tender to you its hearty congratu- 
lations upon the satisfactory completion of 
half a century of unceasingly applied scien- 
tific knowledge to the solution of problems 
affecting the cultivation of the soil, and the 
theory and practice of economic animal 
nutrition— problems of world-wide import- 
ance. 
It has been well said that nothing in the 
records of scientific research is more honour- 
able to our country than the experiments 
which, with self-denying skill, you have, in 
conjunction with Dr. Gilbert, carried on and 
continue at Rothamsted. 
These independent and continuous scien- 
tific operations, conducted under uniform 
conditions, are unique in the whole history of 
science. They have been carried on during 
fifty years at your sole cost, and their future 
continuance you have secured by munificent 
endowment. 
As regards ultimate cultivation, without 
added or artificial enrichment, you have 
taught those concerned how to estimate the 
actual mean fertility of the earth’s surface ; 
and amongst other innumerable and invalu- 
able lessons, be it especially remembered that 
in the composition of permanent pasture you 
have, to the practical advantage of the 
farmer, successfully employed readily* avail- 
able chemistry to modify at pleasure the 
entire character of the vegetation. 
Good and true work is usually abundantly 
prolific ; and the Rothamsted example has 
already led, in various directions, to the 
formation of lesser experimental stations, 
and, notably, the Royal Agricultural Society 
owes to your immediate advice, precept, and 
example much of such success as may have 
attended the experimental station established 
at Woburn. 
As a member of the Council during a 
period of forty-five years, the Society has 
benefited by your active co-operation. You 
have frequently been applied to for special 
advice and assistance, and, in response, you 
invariably rendered services to the Society 
which have been simply invaluable : and, 
further, you have, in conjunction with Dr. 
Gilbert, contributed to the Journal of tlfe 
Society a series of scientific papers, which 
papers alone would render the Journal 
famous. 
In an age of science, a period of active 
evolution, Time, without doubt, will, in an 
ever-increasing ratio, cause your fructifying 
labours, and recorded experience, to be more 
and more realised and appreciated. The 
Society hopes that Providence may long 
spare you to continue your beneficent 
labours ; and for all you have done for Agri- 
culture and for the cognate sciences, and for 
the cultivators of the soil, the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society offers you very hearty 
acknowledgments and most grateful thanks. 
Signed on behalf of the Council, 
Devox'SHiue, President. 
July 26, 1893. 
To Joseph Hexhy Gilbert, M.A., Ph.D., 
LL.D., P.R.S., &c., &c. 
Honorary Member of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
On the occasion of the formal celebration 
of the Jubilee of the Rothamsted Experi- 
ments, which have been so munificently en- 
dowed by Sir John Lawes, the Council of the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, 
desire, on behalf and in the name of the 
general body of members of that Society, to 
offer you their sincere congratulations on 
the completion of fifty years’ uninterrupted 
association with these experiments to the 
value and success of which you have greatly 
contributed. 
In the organising and systematic arrange- 
ment and record of the researches conducted 
at Rothamsted you have had a leading share ; 
and you have there set before us a model of 
what all work of experimental inquiry 
should be. 
Your investigations into the applications 
of chemistry to the cultivation of crops and 
the feeding of live stock have been of the 
highest possible importance to the practical 
agriculturist, and the sincere thanks of the 
agricultural community at large are due and 
are hereby tendered to you for the scientific 
skill and indefatigable industry which you 
have brought to bear upon the conduct of 
the Rothamsted researches. 
The Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 
land is proud of ranking you amongst its 
honorary members, ami it desires to take this 
opportunity of expressing its indebtedness to 
you for your ever-ready counsel and assist- 
ance, as well as for the many admirable and 
exhaustive papers which, in conjunction 
with Sir John Lawes, you have contributed 
to the Society’s Journal. 
The names of Lawes and Gilbert are 
already inseparably linked with the Rotham- 
sted Experiments, and the Society earnestly 
hopes that you may both be long spared to 
continue in uninterrupted collaboration your 
labours for the public welfare. 
Signed on behalf of the Council, 
Devonshire, President, 
July 26, 1893. 
The Secretary announced that 
His Grace the President of the So- 
ciety had promised to present these 
Addresses personally at the ceremony 
on July 29. 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyn (Chairman) re- 
ported that a letter had been read 
from Mr. F. R. Armytage on behalf 
of the Technical Instruction Com- 
mittee of the County Council of 
Salop, asking whether the Society 
would have any objection to their 
Schedule of Fees for Chemical Analy- 
sis being copied, in part or in whole, 
