AGRICULTUKAL EDUCATIOX. 15 



v.— VETERIXAEY SCIENCE. 



1. Anatomy of the Digestive organs of horse and ox, describing their 

 structural differences. 2. The process of digestion in the above animals, 

 and food most proper for each in quantity and quality. 3. The manage- 

 ment of stock before, at, and after parturition. The time of utero-gestation 

 in the domesticated animals. 4. The general principles to be followed in 

 the treatment of very acute disease, before assistance of the veterinary 

 surgeon can be procured. 



YL— FIELD ENGINEERING. 



1. Land-Surveying with the Chain. 2. Mensuration of Areas of Land, 

 in Imperial and Scotch acres, from a Chain Survey or from a Plan. 3. 

 Levelling with the ordinarv levelling instrument and staff, and calculatin'' 

 levels and gradients. Text-hoohs — " Rudimentary Treatise on Land and 

 Engineering Surveying," by T. Baker, C.E. ; " Weales Series," price 2s., 

 part I., chaps. 1, 2, 3, and 6, and part II. chap. 1, to be read. 



YIL— BOOK-KEEPING. 



1. Questions in Practice and Proportion. 2. Book-keeping — Describe 

 books to be kept ; give examples — taking of stock. Text-hook — Stephen's 

 " Practical System of Farm Book-keeping," \Vm. Blackwood & Sons, Edin- 

 burgh, price 2s. 6d. 



EXAMINATION FOR BURSARIES. 



Candidates are examined in the Elements of Botanv, Chemistry, Phvsical 

 Geography, and Geology. Text-hooks — Balfour's " Elements of Botany ; " 

 Roscoe's " Lessons in Elementary Chemistry ; " Page's " Introductory Text- 

 Book of Geology ; " Geikie's " Primer of Physical Geography ; " and Lyell's 

 " Students' Elements of Geology." 



It has been resolved that, under ordinary circumstances, the examina- 

 tions shall be held annually in the end of October, and candidates must 

 enter their names with the Secretary before the loth of that month, and 

 produce the necessary certificates from the teachers of the schools they have 

 attended. 



The bursaries are open to candidates not less than fourteen years of age. 



VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 



The Society established a Yeterinary Department in 1823, but by an 

 arrangement made with the Royal Colk-ge of Yeterinary Surgeons, the 

 Society's examinations ceased in 1881. Holders of the Society's "S'eterinary 

 Certiticate are entitled to become Members of the Royal College of Yeteri- 

 nary Surgeons on payment of certain fees, without being required to umlergo 

 any further examination. The number of students who have passed for the 

 Society's Certiticate is 1183. 



In 1874 the Society resolved to vote annually eight silver medals for 

 Class Comjietition to each of the two Yeterinary Colleges in Edinburgh, and 

 to the one in Glasgow. 



