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consideration, and arrangements might be made for the 

 students graduating in the University. 



At a meeting of the Council of the Edinburgh Univer- 

 sity held in the month of July last (1886), on considera- 

 tion of a communication from the Senatus as to the 

 proposed rules for graduation in science in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the draft of a resolution embodying 

 the proposed rules was approved, and it was ordered that 

 it should be submitted to the General Council of the 

 University at their next meeting for their consideration, 

 in terms of sec. xii. (2) of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 

 1858. It was also ordered that any communication which 

 might be received on the subject from the directors of the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland should be 

 transmitted to the General Council for consideration in 

 connection with the proposed rules The following is a 

 copy of the proposed rules : 



' 1. In the Department of Agriculture the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science shall be the only degree conferred. 

 2. The rules as to a preliminary examination on subjects 

 of general education shall be the same as those for 

 graduation in the Department of Physical and Natural 

 Science. 3. The rules as to attendance on qualifying 

 classes for three sessions shall be the same as those for 

 graduation in the Department of Physical and Natural 

 Science ; provided always that instead of one of such 

 three years of attendance, a year may be spent on a farm 

 or farms, in pursuance of the practical study of agriculture. 

 4. Each candidate must produce a certificate of attend- 

 ance upon a qualifying class on each subject of examina- 

 tion, if that subject is taught in the University ; and if 

 the subject be not taught in the University, he must 

 produce a certificate of attendance on lectures on that 

 subject, at an institution recognised by the University for 

 the purpose ; and should he, instead of one of the three 

 years of attendance required in section 3, have spent a 

 year in the practical study of agriculture, he must produce 

 a certificate to that effect. 5. There shall be two 



