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being next in succession in order of merit, shall receive a gold 

 medal of the value of lOZ. 



" That the examination in practical agriculture shall comprise 

 all the details of tillage, manuring, feeding, and general manage- 

 ment of stock, and the keeping of farm accounts. 



".That the examinations in the sciences more immediately 

 connected with agriculture shall comprise the elements of 

 geology, chemistry, botany, mechanics, and vegetable phy- 

 siology." 



It was stated that this amendment was framed with the hope 

 that the marks of distinction proposed to be conferred, together 

 with the publicity attached to the awards, would have the effect 

 of inducing middle-class schools to devote attention to agricultural 

 education, and to compete with one another in Cjualifying pupils 

 to become candidates for the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 honours. 



A long discussion ensued ; but on the amendment being put, 

 there appeared 10 ayes and 19 noes ; it was therefore lost, and 

 the original Report was afterwards carried by a majority of 18 to 

 8 ; the names of Mr. Frere and Professor Voelcker weie now 

 added to the committee. 



On the 17th May following the adoption of this Report, Mr. 

 jMorton delivered a most able and instructive lecture on the 

 subject of agricultural education, which, as it has already been 

 published in extenso in the last number of this Journal, need not 

 here be recapitulated ; suffice it to say that JNIr. Morton, without 

 at all disparaging the recent decisions of the Council on this 

 subject, stated his opinion that special agricultual education was 

 intended by the framers of the Society's charter, and was of 

 more value and service to the future farmer than a more general 

 education could possibly be. 



During the spring and summer of the past year, after the 

 adoption by the Council of the Report, as above given, the Com- 

 mittee held frequent meetings, and decided that, in consequence 

 of the late period of the year in which the Report was adopted 

 by the Council, no examination could be held in connexion 

 with the Oxford Local Examinations of that year, but that the 

 first trial must be made in connexion with the Cambridge Local 

 Examinations held in December, 1865. On the 16th May they 

 issued the following general prize list, and appropriated a sum 

 not exceeding 130/. to prizes, to be awarded in connexion 

 with that examination. The said sum to be apportioned as 

 follows : — 



L To prizes for candidates who obtain certificates, regard 

 being had'to their place in the general class-list. 



