338 Report to the Annual General Meeting. 



papers), Farm and Estate Engineering (including Surveying, 

 Buildings, Machinery and Implements), Agricultural Chemistry, 

 Agricultural Botany, Agricultural Book-keeping, Agricultural 

 Zoology and Veterinary Science. Candidates will have the 

 option of taking the whole eight papers in one year, or of sitting 

 for a group of emy four in one year, and the remaining group of 

 four in the next year. In order to be eligible to sit for the new 

 examination, a candidate must present a certificate from a recog- 

 nised Agricultural College that his attainments in the subjects of 

 General Botany, General Chemistry, Geology, and Physics and 

 Mechanics, as attested by class and other examinations are, in 

 the opinion of the authorities of the College, such as to justify his 

 admission to the examination. If unable to present a certificate 

 from an Agricultural College, a candidate will have the choice of 

 several alternatives. 



To meet the case of students who had already commenced 

 their courses of training before the issue of the new Regula- 

 tions, the Board have decided to hold Examinations in the old 

 Part I. in 1912 and in Part II. in 1912 and 1913, as well as under 

 the new conditions, 



41. The Examinations for the National Diploma in Dairying 

 were held this year for English students from September 16th to 

 22nd, at the British Dairy Institute and University College, Read- 

 ing; and for Scottish students from September 23rd to 30th, at 

 the Dairy School for Scotland, Kilmarnock. Thirty-three candi- 

 dates were examined at Reading, of whom fifteen passed, and 

 forty-two candidates at Kilmarnock, of whom twenty passed. 

 The names of the successful candidates will be found on pp. 343 

 and 344. 



42. The Text-book " Elements of Agriculture," edited by the 

 late Dr. Fream, having passed through no less than seven editions, 

 and met with so great a demand by the public that 39,000 copies 

 have been sold smce its issue in 1892, the Council thought the 

 time had arrived for a thorough revision and partial re-writing 

 of the book. This duty was undertaken for the Society by Pro- 

 fessor Ainsworth-Davis, M.A., Principal of the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester, with the assistance of the Society's Con- 

 sulting Officers, the Secretaries of the principal Breed Societies, 

 and others; and the new edition, which is greatly enlarged and 

 contains a number of new illustrations, has just been published 

 by Mr. John Murray, 50a, Albemarle Street, W., at the price of 

 five shillings. 



By Order of the Council, 



THOMAS McROW, 



Secretary. 



16, Bedford Square, 

 London, W.C. 



November. 191 J. 



