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REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE 
ON THE RESULTS OF THE SENIOR 
EXAMINATION OF MAY 1890. 
The Committee have to report that seventeen candidates entered 
for the Senior Examinations held on May 13 and four following days, 
and that, with one exception, these candidates duly presented them- 
selves for examination. 
2. The following Table shows the results of the examination in 
each year from 1868, when the Senior Examination was first insti- 
tuted, until the present time : — 
Year 
No. of 
candidates 
examined 
1868 
1869 
1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1877 
1878 
1879 
18 
18 
2 
4 
8 
9 
10 
6 
4 
8 
6 
12 
Passed 
First class Second class 
Xo award No award 
2 
Xo award Xo award 
2 1 
5 - 
3 
1 
2 
2 2 
1 2 
1 
3 
Year 
1880 
18S1 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
Total 
No. of Passed 
candidates 
examined \ First c i ass second class 
12 
9 
19 
7 
12 
21 
7 
13 
24 
16 
4 
3 
1 
6 
2 
3 
4 
3 
3 
10 
6 
253 
67 
35 
3. Of the sixteen competitors, eleven have satisfied the Ex- 
aminers; and the following candidates, placed in order of merit, 
have gained first-class certificates, and thus become Life Members of 
the Society ; the first four being entitled in addition to the prizes 
stated below : — 
1. Francis Reginald Armytage, 4 Pump Court, Temple, E.C. 
First Prize of 251. 
2. Richard "William Haydon, Great Coombshead, North 
Molton, Devon. Second Prize of 151. 
3. Henry Crabtree, 30, Lutton Place, Edinburgh. Third 
Prize of 101. 
4. Alfred Henry Inman, 9 Queensferry Street, Edinburgh. 
Fourth Prize of 51. 
5. John James Jeffray, Blackaddie, Sanquhar, iST.B. 
6. RicnARD Henderson, Portland Estates Office, Kilmar- 
nock, N.B. 
4. The following candidates, having passed in Agriculture and 
in three of the other four compulsory subjects, have been awarded 
Second Class Certificates : — 
