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for the present year at least, may be appropriated in aid of tech- 
nical education, has recently brought this subject very much to 
the front ; and as it may reasonably be anticipated that in the agri- 
cultural counties some of this money will be devoted to the promo- 
tion of technical education in agriculture, the Council have felt it 
incumbent upon them to give careful consideration to the directions 
and methods in which such a grant could be best applied. The 
Council have already debated this question on two occasions since 
the last General Meeting ; but as the subject is one of some com- 
plexity and much difficulty, they have postponed any final recommen- 
dation in the matter until their meeting to be held in February next. 
33. The Council have been invited by the Charity Commissioners 
to give their opinion upon several schemes which are intended to 
provide agricultural sides at schools already existing ; and they 
have been asked to nominate representative governors, both upon 
these foundations and upon several others for secondary schools 
throughout the country. 
34. The Council have received a letter from the Board of Agri- 
culture, inviting the opinion of the Society as to the establishment of 
some more uniform system than exists at present of examining 
pupils to whom Dairy Instruction is given, and asking if the Society 
would be willing to make a selection from amongst its Members of 
Examiners qualified by their special acquaintance with this branch 
of Agriculture, in order to secure for the projected examining body 
the highest possible qualifications. The Council have readily 
promised their co-operation to the Board of Agriculture in the 
establishment of such an examining body, which the Council think 
the Members generally will agree with them in considering to be very 
desirable and highly important. 
35. Three parts of the Society's new Quarterly J ournal have now 
been published, and the fourth part, completing Vol. 1 of the Third 
Series, will be issued on the 31st instant. In compliance with a de- 
sire expressed by a number of Members for the uniform binding of 
their volumes of the Journal, the Council have selected a superior 
green cloth cover, with gilt lettering at the back and the Society's 
device at the side, and have arranged with Messrs. Spottiswocde & Co. 
for the binding for Members of each year's numbers at the price of 
Two Shillings per volume, to include packing in boards and return 
postage. The Council have arranged with the same firm to bind 
back volumes of the First and Second Series at the same price ; 
and with the view of facilitating the completion of sets which 
Members may possess, the Council have resolved to reduce the 
price to Members of the First and Second Series to 3s. 6d. per part, 
the publishing price of the new Quarterly Journal. 
By Order of the Council, 
ERNEST CLARKE, 
Secretary. 
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