IN A UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM 15 



a delayed start, and, in any case, the position is not the 

 same to-day as it was in 1891, and must now be treated 

 differently. Finding progress within the University to 

 be difficult or impossible, the friends of Agriculture 

 bethought themselves of associating the University with 

 what was then known as the University Extension 

 College of Reading, in a scheme for organizing instruc- 

 tion and examination in Agriculture. In 1894 Convoca- 

 tion authorized the formation of a Joint Committee 

 comprising representatives appointed by the Delegacy 

 for the Extension of Teaching beyond the University, 

 and by the College at Reading. This Committee was, 

 by subsequent Statutes, passed by Convocation in 1896 

 and 1904, enlarged to embrace nominees of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England and of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, while its original powers to con- 

 duct examinations and grant diplomas in Agriculture 

 were extended to diplomas and certificates in ' Horti- 

 culture and other subjects kindred thereto '. 



In 1898 the subject was again before the University, 

 when on May 17 a form of statute was promulgated in 

 Congregation, which had for its object the establishment 

 of an Honours School of Agricultural Science. The 

 three avenues proposed to this School were (i) Honours 

 in some other Final School, (2) Honours in the First 

 Public Examination, (3) Passing in Chemistry, Animal 

 Physiology, and Botany in the Preliminary Examina- 

 tions in the Honours School of Natural Science. 



This proposal was chiefly opposed on the grounds 

 (i) that it was in response to a demand from without 

 and not from within, (2) that the University did not 

 provide all the teaching necessary for the School, 

 (3) that certain members of the Board of Studies in 

 charge of the Examinations need not be members of 



