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of the Education Committee, stated that the Committee recom- 

 mended the Council to vote a sum of money to be placed at the 

 disposal of the Committee, to be given in rewards to the suc- 

 cessful candidates at the examination, of such kind and to be held 

 at such times and places as should thereafter be determined ; 

 and that all candidates for such examination should receive a 

 certificate of nomination from some inember of the Society. The 

 Committee reported that the Rev. Professor Rawlinson, the Rev. 

 Dr. Temple, members of the Delegacy for the Local Examination, 

 Oxford ; Piofessor Liveing, one of the Syndics for the Local 

 Examination, Cambridge ; Mr. Heywood, M.P., one of the 

 Senate of the University of London ; Rev. J. Constable, Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester ; Rev. Canon Brereton ; Rev. 

 Dr. Jacob Dean, of the College of Preceptors ; Mr. Robson, 

 B.A., Secretary of the College of Preceptors, attended the con- 

 ference on the invitation of the Council. That it appeared that 

 all these bodies were willing to co-operate with the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, and that their several examining 

 Boards were disposed to communicate to the Council a report in 

 detail on the attainments of the candidates included in any list 

 forwarded by the Council. A discussion ensued, but finally the 

 Report was adopted, and the names of Earl Fortescue, Lord 

 Walsingham, Mr. Dent, M.P., Mr. Randell, and INIr. Wells, 

 were added to the list of the Committee. 



At the monthly Council Meeting held on the 1st of March, in 

 the same year, the Committee again presented a report, which, 

 after a long discussion, was handed loack to them for further 

 consideration. It was at this meeting proposed by Col. Challoncr, 

 and seconded by Mr. Randell, that instructions should be given 

 to the Committee to consider whether it would not be expedient 

 to establish an examination of candidates as to their practical 

 knowledge of stock and agricultural machinery ; which motion 

 was lost by 16 noes to 5 ayes. On the 5th of April, 1865, the 

 Committee again sent in a report to the Council, which report is 

 as follows : — 



1. The Committee have revised the Report placed before the 

 Council on the 10th March, and have again taken into consider- 

 ation the various subjects which were discussed upon that occasion. 



2. In consequence of the late period of the year at which this 

 Report has been referred back to them, the Committee cannot 

 recommend any examination in practical agriculture in 1865, 

 and are not prepared to advise the appointment by the Council 

 of a Board of Examiners until a trial has been made of the exist- 

 ing examining bodies. 



