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3. The Committee recommend tliat a sum not exceeding 100/. 

 be given for Society's prizes amongst candidates who liave 

 passed the Oxford or Cambridge Senior or Junior Examination, 



4. That a sum not exceeding 100/. be given for special sub- 

 jects, envimerated below,* to candidates at the Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge Examinations who have passed the Preliminary Examin- 

 ation. 



5. That a sum of 100/. be left in the hands of tlie Committee 

 for additional prizes in connection with these examinations, and 

 for expenses attendant thereon, 



6. Every candidate shall be recommended by a member of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of England ; and must be a 

 person in some way dependent on the cultivation of the land for 

 his support, or intending to make agriculture his profession, 



7. In the choice of special subjects, the Committee being 

 necessarily restricted to those in which candidates are examined 

 at the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations, have made 

 their selection with a view to the encouragement of proficiency 

 in such branches of science as are applicable to the study of 

 practical agriculture, and calculated to prepare the mind of the 

 student for the proper reception of that practical education which 

 must ultimately be completed by observation of the working of 

 a farm, and thus enable him to test the value of such theories as 

 may be presented to him, 



8. The subjects chosen will be especially useful to machine- 

 makers, manure manufacturers, and others, who, it is hoped, will 

 be attracted to these examinations, though more indirectly de- 

 pendent upon agriculture for their support than the actual culti- 

 vators of the soil. 



(Signed) Edwaed Holland, Chairman. 



To this Report, however, was attached a protest, signed by the 

 Chairman and three other membex's of the Committee, made for 

 the following reasons : — 



1, Because it does not appear to us that the framers of the 

 charter contemplated the Society's dealing with the question of 

 general education, 



2. Because we are of opinion that the operations of the 

 Society should be confined to the special object of encouraging 

 efficiency on the part of candidates in practical and scientific 

 agriculture ; thereby advancing agriculture as a science, and 



* The special subjects referred to in paragraph 4 are, — Mathematics, Mechanics, 

 Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, or Geology. 



