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cates in the event of their complying, during the forthcoming year, 
with the conditions of the Examination. Five other boys passed in 
each of the four subjects, but, not having obtained the minimum 
aggregate of marks, are ineligible for Certificates. Of the seventeen 
other unsuccessful candidates, six failed in one subject, five in two 
subjects, four in three subjects, and two in all four subjects. 
There were three failures in Agriculture, nine in Chemistry, four- 
teen in Mechanics, and ten in Land Surveying. Of the fifteen 
successful candidates, the first ten in the following list will receive 
Scholarships upon complying with the Society's regulations, and the 
remainder will receive Certificates : — 
1. Edwin Coates, Northampton Grammar School. 
2. Herbert Faulkner Lee, Surrey County School. 
3. Henry Hamilton Clements, Anahilt Endowed National School. 
4. Samuel David Crotheus, Anahilt Endowed National School. 
5. Montagu Hounsell Cox, Surrey County School. 
6. Arthur George Henry Verkall, Surrey County School. 
7. Walter Ernest Coates White, Aspatria Agricultural College. 
8. Alfred Caldecott, Queen's School, Basingstoke. 
9. William Longmore Parkin, Northampton Grammar School. 
10. Percy Shelley, Surrey County School. 
11. Francis Bedford Glasier, Norfolk County School. 
I 9 \e J'J 0SEPI1 Lister, Aspatria Agricultural College. 
f e ^'\ Martin Hammond Ward, Aspatria Agricultural College. 
14' Edward Howard Smart, Portsmouth Grammar School. 
15' Tfacy French Gavin Jones, Tamworth Agricultural College. 
By Order of the Council, 
(Signed; ERNEST CLARKE, 
Secretary. 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1889 OF THE 
CONSULTING BOTANIST. 
During the year over four hundred applications have been made 
to me by members of the Society. The greater number have related 
to grass seeds, and the result of the year's work in this Department 
is that deliberate adulteration with cheaper and worthless seeds has 
practically ceased. This, of course, refers only to seeds that have 
been examined by me, as compared with similar seeds submitted to 
me only a few y-ears ago. This improvement, as my Annual Reports 
show, has been gradual, but always advancing. No longer do i find 
meadow fescue and tall fescue largely composed of rye-grass, nor 
sweet vernal more or less completely replaced by the almost worthless 
annual vernal grass of the Continent ; nor are the two qualities (!) 
of golden oat-grass brought under my notice, the cheaper, which was 
sold wholesale at one-third of the price of the other, having been 
