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Co ege, who had spent some time at the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester, a class for senior students who proposed to 

 take up agncultural teaching. This class, which to the best 

 Oi .he writer s belief was the first agricultural class held in 



nCi T "'If d6d am ° ng 0thers ^ Profes «* John Per- 



c val, oi Beading Mr R. H. Adie, now Secretary of the School 



IJ^T ° eCil Warburt ™> Zoologist to the Rova 



Agncultural Society and the writer. The instruction wa, not 

 exactly- ^systematic, but much valuable information was obtained 



eiZ t8 of t0 * Woh ™> Sawbridgeworth and her 



centres of agricultural interest. 



hi! Tf^T f m -' , P T r ,° feSSOr Liveing ' and Professo »- Hughes, 

 head of the Geological Department, had begun negotiations with 

 representatives of a number of neighbouring County Councils 

 among whom were Mr. Albert Pell of Northamptonshire. Mr 

 Arthur Sperling of Cambridgeshire and Mr. Howard Coote of 

 Huntingdonshire These gentlemen constituted an informal 

 Committee, the Cambridge and Counties Agricultural Eduction 

 teinimttee which was assisted in its deliberations by the late 

 Mr. A E. Brooke-Hunt, Educational Inspector of the Board of 

 ^'culture With the aid of a small capital grant from the 

 Cambndge County Council for equipment, and "small annua 

 gran s from that County Council, from other neighbouring 

 counties, and from the Board of Agriculture, this Committee' 

 began ,n January, 1898, to give an organised course of instruc- 



ml TIT" ^ n i6nCe - Pr ° feSSOr Liveing was Secretary 

 and Treasurer of the Committee, Mr. Albert Pell, Chairman, and 

 Mi. Henry Robinson the only full time officer. Headquarters 



ZIZ r T,\ \ by Professor Liveing in the bt ~t of 



hemical laboratory where Mr. Robinson gave lectures and 

 practical classes m agricultural chemistry. Professor Hughes 

 gave a special course of lectures on agricultural geology, illus- 

 trated by frequent field excursions. Agricultural botany was 



he Botanic Gardens at Singapore. There were seven students, 

 al scholars of one or other of the contributing County Councils. 

 Only two of them were members of the University. The Com- 

 mittee maintained a room in St. Mary's Passage as a reading 

 room and library Meant.me. the second report of the Syndicate 

 recommending the institution of a Diploma in Agriculture, was 

 accepted by the University in November. 1898. and the first 

 D.plonm wns awarded in July, 1894, on the results of exami- 

 nations held m that month. 



