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Board), and Lecturers (who should not be members of the 
Academic Board), together with other assistants, as the Govern- 
ing Body from time to time appoint to serve. The Staff should, 
from the inception of the College, include teachers with the status 
of Professors in the following subjects : — 
1. General Agriculture ; 
2. Mycology ; 
3. Entomology ; 
4. Agricultural Chemistry ; 
5. Organie Chemistry ; 
6. Agricultural Bacteriology ; 
7. Agricultural and Physiological Botany ; 
8. Genetics; 
9. Sugar Technology; and 
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10. Agricultural Engineering and Physics: 
and teachers with the status of Lecturers in the two subjects : — 
11. Stock and Veterinary Science; and 
12. Book-keeping. 
19. In connection with the Staft, the Committee beg to recom- 
mend strongly that one of the duties delegated at the outset by 
the Governing Body to their Finance Committee be that of devis- 
ing a suitable scheme of pensions for the members of the College 
Staff; and that one of the duties delegated to their Hxecutive 
Committee be that of arranging that provision be made for the 
granting to members of the Staff of periods of Study-leaye in 
addition to any furlough to which, as teachers in the College, 
they may be entitled. 
. Curriculum.—Though they have recommended (see Sec- 
tion 18 (3) above) that the details regarding the instruction to be 
given to Students of the Tropical Agricultural College should be 
settled by the Academic Board which it is proposed to set up, the 
“‘ (a) A junior course of instruction in tropical agriculture ex- 
tending over two, or possibly three, years. This course 
should be arranged to meet the requirements of youths 
leaving the Secondary Schools of the colonies who intend 
to follow ordinary agricultural pursuits, probably in the 
colonies from which they come. There should be some 
educational standard of requirement for admission to the 
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examinations. This course of instruction should em- 
pe 1ts. 
**(b) A senior course of similar instruction extending over not 
ess than four years. 
