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various granite masses. Cretaceous rocks have, for the first 

 time, been noticed in Soay Sound and Scalpay. In Ireland the 

 drifts have been surveyed in the Dublin area. 



Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland 

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The Report states that the movement for the establishment of 

 an organisation for agricultural teaching and research in the 

 South-East of Scotland has resulted in the establishment of 

 the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture on 

 lines similar to the institution already existing in the West of 

 Scotland. 



The attitude of the Committee towards such movements has 

 been that the support given to each institution from Imperial 

 and national funds must be to a large extent dependent on the 

 appreciation of its work in the various localities concerned, as 

 evidenced by continued local support. The most effective way 

 of securing such support, as well as of ensuring that the work 

 of each institution shall take the direction most likely to be of 

 benefit to the locality, is, the Committee think, to entrust its 

 executive management to a body of governors thoroughly re- 

 presentative of the most enlightened opinion on agricultural 

 subjects among both farmers and landowners ; and there are 

 now three such organisations affecting wide districts of Scotland, 

 and affording aid to the agriculture of the district in the form 

 best suited to it. 



While the Committee do not think it feasible or desirable to 

 make practical instruction in agriculture part of the curriculum 

 of rural schools in general, they think it possible to give to 

 the studies of the more advanced pupils in many of these 

 schools such a direction as shall foster their interest in rural life, 

 and give them some insight into the scientific principles which 

 underlie the practice of agriculture. When it is desired that 

 opportunity should be afforded to teachers in suitable localities 



