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vantage has been taken of these bursaries by pupils educated at the following schools : 

 — High School, Edinburgh'; George Watson's College, Edinburgh ; Edinburgh Institu- 

 tion ; School of Arts, Edinburgh ; Dollar Academy, Dundee Institution, Dumfries 

 Academy, Aj'r Academy, Wick Science School, Ballantrae Parochial School ; Rattray's 

 Academy, Aberdeen ; St. Mungo's Parish School, Glencairn Parish School, Hexham 

 Public School, Brampton Academy, and Fyv'ie School. Amongst the colleges and 

 schools at which candulates for the diploma and certificates have been educated are : — 

 Trinity College, Cambridge ; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; Dulwich Col- 

 lege, Surrey ; Owens College, Manchester ; Clevedon College ; Harrow School ; Winchester 

 College ; Repton School, I)erbyshire ; Hexham School, Edinburgh University, Aberdeen 

 University, Fettes CoUege, Glasgow Academy, Veterinary and Agricultural College^ 

 Glasgow ; Aberdeen School of Chemistry, Edinburgh High School, Pulteneytown 

 School, East Linton School, Montrose Academy, Fyvie School ; ]Morison's Academy^ 

 Crieff; Kells Parish School, New Cumnock Free Church School, Prestonkirk Free 

 Church School, Greenloaning School, Kirkwall School, Wick Science School. The 

 Committee conceive that by the steps above set forth, and more particularly by the 

 institution of the fifteen bursaries of the total annual value of £250 specially off'ered to 

 the pupils of schools in which the sciences connected with agriculture are taught, the 

 Society has, in the absence of greater funds, done in tlie past what it could to encourage 

 the estalilishment of such schools as those referred to by Colonel Innes. The Com- 

 mittee confidently hope that these bursaries, as they become better known, will be 

 taken advantage of by the pupils of other schools where the sciences may be inti'oduced, 

 and they have only further to suggest that the Society memorialise the Government to 

 engraft the teaching of agriculture into the board schools of the country. The Directors 

 approved of the report, and directed it to be brought before this meeting." 

 Mr. Irvine, after reading the report, moved its adoption. 



Mr. Milne Home of Milne Graden said he did not know that the report was to come 

 before the meeting. He should be very glad, however, to second the motion ; at the 

 same time making this remark, that he understood that the motion of Colonel Innes, 

 to which the report referred, recommended a wider distribution of the Society's influ- 

 ence than merely to confine it to Edinburgh. He had some idea, from old recollections 

 — but Mr. Forbes Irvine would know — that there was a school in Aberdeen. He 

 understood that there was a professorship or lectureship on the science of agriculture 

 in Aberdeen, and he thought it would be for the good of the Society to ofi'er prizes to 

 the students in that class, if there were such a class, who underwent a particular 

 examination. It would be for the Directors, or rather for the Committee on Agricul- 

 tural Education, to consider what ought to be done, ])ut at all events the more en- 

 couragement the Society gave in that way the better. 



Mr. Irvine of Drum said that amongst the other institutions mentioned in the report 

 there was the Aberdeen School of Chemistry. 



Mr. Milne Home said he understood that there were bursaries and prizes, but that 

 they were all monopolised by Edinburgh, whereas none were given to any other school 

 in the country. 



The Secretary said that the £10 bur.saries were open to the stutlents of any school, 

 bnt the £20 bursaries were tenable for one year at the University of Edinburgli. 



The report was tlien adopted. 



The Society's Experimental Stations.— Dr. Aitken, chemist to the Society, 

 reported on the Society's experimental stations : — " In tbe volume of the Transactions 

 just issued, there is contained a condensed report of the experiments carried on at the 

 Society's stations during the past season. The last crop of the rotation — viz., oats — 

 ha.s been sown under the most favourable conditions, autl the various manures have 

 been applied with the utmost precision at l)oth stations. The tieM at Ilarelaw, which 

 ha.s liitlicrto been in too high a state of fertility for our expuriments, is now reduced to 

 a condition wliich, 1 think, will be found very favourable for exhibiting the effects of 

 the different kinds of manure whii;h liave been applied to it. I look forward witli nuu-li 

 interest to the apjiearances wliich will be presented on that field this summer, and am 

 hopeful that, from its i)roxiniity t«i the railway station of Longniddry, it may attract 

 tlie attention and receive the insi)ection of those for whose benefit the experiments have 

 been instituted. As an aiMitional inducement to those who may care to visit tlie 

 stations, I may say that a new set of labels has been prepared, indicating not only the 

 number of eacii plot, but also the preci.so nature and amount of the manures apjilied to 

 it, so that any one going over the plots may be al)Ie to understuml the e.\i>eriments 

 without a guide ami without a plan. Besides the ordinary set of exjterinients on tlio 

 large an<l small jilots, I have this year made u.so of part of th« sj»are grountl at Harelaw 

 to test the value of potash as a manure for the i)otat<) crop, both in tlie form of sulpliate 

 and of muriate, it is very gratifying to lind that the value of agricultural ex]ieriments is 

 year by year Ijeing l)etter appreciated, and that the number of workers in the field is on 

 the increase. In the first ]»lace, w«' have tlie Al»ordeenshire .\sso< iation, whose work is^ 

 Well known, and whoso intlefatigable chemist has Injen doing valiant battle all round 



