VOL. XLVII. NO, 2010. * NEW YORK AUGUST 4 1888 price five cents 
’ ' $2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1888, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
SIR JOHN BENNET LAWES, BAllT., 
LL.D., E.R.S., F.C.S. 
(From a photograph taken a few weeks ago. See page 615.) 
