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of Education grants paid to Local Authorities for the purposes of 

 Higher Education became applicable to agricultural instruction, but 

 so far as can be gathered from the accounts and reports of that 

 Board no substantial sum was applied to agricultural purposes until 

 the Board introduced the new "Block Grant" regulations in 1906. 

 In the Memorandum recently published by the Board of Edu- 

 cation, to which reference has above been made, tables are given 

 containing estimates of the grants which in 1907-8 were awarded 

 for " Specialised Agricultural Technology. " The total sum dis- 

 bursed in the year in question was estimated at 7 787 (francs 

 196621). Of this amount 1329 was paid to seven agricultural 

 institutions, and the remainder to County Education Committees in 

 respect of local work. 



Tables of Expenditure for Agricultural Education (apart 

 from secondary schools and elementary schools). - 



(Board of Education, London, 1909, p. 13. E. S. R., March 

 1910, Washington). 



This report explains the relations of the general Board of Edu- 

 cation and the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the support 

 of agricultural teaching in the universities, independent colleges 

 and the secondary and elementary schools of England and Wales 

 in the counties named. 



J. MIDDLETON. Number of Agricultural Students in England. 



(Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Annual Report on the 

 Distribution of Grants for Agricultural Education and Research 

 in the Year 1907-1908; with Statements respecting the several 

 Colleges and Institutions aided and a Summary of the Agricul- 

 tural Instruction provided by County Councils in 1907-8, toge- 

 ther with the Expenditure on the same. London, 1909, Cd. 4802, 

 p. VII). 



" The total number of students attending the institutions aided 

 by the Board was i 146 in 1905-6, i 221 in 1906-7 and i 313 in 

 1907-8 (i). While these figures indicate that in the aggregate a con- 



(i) These figures do not include students attending the Royal Veterinary 

 College, of whom there were 236 in 1907-08. nor do they include 300 ele- 

 mentary school teachers who attended short courses at the colleges during 

 the year. 



