Reports of Committees. 
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Vacancy on the Council. 
The President said that during 
the autumn he had received from the 
Earl of Jersey a letter in which he 
expressed his sorrow at having tem- 
porarily to part from the Council, in 
order to take up a post under the 
Crown of great responsibility and 
importance. He (Lord Ravensworth) 
had ventured to reply — and he hoped 
that he had expressed the feelings of 
the Council in so doing— that the 
Society regretted extremely the loss 
of Lord Jersey's assistance, but were 
quite sure, after their long acquain- 
tance with him, that he was the 
right man in the right place. 
Education. 
Mr. Dent (Chairman) reported that 
arrangements had been made for the 
Society's Junior Examinations, to be 
held on the 11th and 12th instant, 
and that forty-two candidates had 
been entered from fourteen schools. 
The ten successful candidates at last 
year's examination having duly com- 
plied with the regulations, the Com- 
mittee recommended that the cheques 
for the scholarships be now paid to 
them. 
Communications had been received 
from the Charity Commissioners for- 
warding copies of the West Lavington 
(Wilts) and Woodbridge (Suffolk) 
Foundation Schemes, as submitted to 
the Committee of Council on Educa- 
tion, and thanking the Council for 
the criticisms which they had offered 
in February last. The Commissioners 
had given effect to all the suggestions 
of the Council, with the exception 
of the one referring to the clauses 
which stipulated that the scholarships 
should be limited to boys residing 
within the neighbourhood of the 
school. The date of the next Senior 
Examination had been fixed for 
Tuesday, May 12, to Saturday, May 
16, 1891. 
The Committee had again given 
careful consideration to the six recom- 
mendations of the Joint Committee 
of the Central Chamber of Agriculture 
and the Farmers' Club on technical 
education in agriculture, which were 
referred back to them by the Council 
on June 4 last. A report on the sub- 
ject [see p. 851] had been submitted 
by him as Chairman, and had been 
passed in the Committee by his cast- 
ing vote. 
Technical Education in Agriculture, 
Mr. Dent said he must detain the 
Council for a few moments, because 
one of the recommendations of the 
Education Committee yesterday was 
only carried by his own casting vote, 
and therefore it would be necessary 
for him to say a few words on the 
matter. The Council would recollect 
that they gave a somewhat hurried 
examination to the report of the Joint 
Committee of the Central Chamber of 
Agriculture and Farmers' Club, in 
the month of June last, and they then 
advised the concurrence of the Council 
in the recommendations of that Joint 
Committee. The Duke of Richmond, 
however, took strong objection to 
their concurring in the first recom- 
mendation, and also doubted the ex- 
pediency of the last one ; and the 
report was eventually referred back to 
their Committee. Since then much 
had happened. The Board of Agri- 
culture had given attention to the 
subject. They had made several 
grants, and they had written to dif- 
ferent educational bodies and to the 
Council, urging them to pay more 
attention to technical education in 
agriculture, and to formulate schemes 
for that purpose. In consequence of 
this, he had ventured to lay yesterday 
before the Committee a report which 
had been printed, and which was laid 
upon the table. That report alluded 
to what had taken place with regard 
to other educational bodies. Para- 
graph 3 of the report mentioned that 
the University of Cambridge and the 
Yorkshire College at Leeds had both 
taken up the subject ; and both had 
done him the honour of asking him 
to serve upon the Syndicates which 
were to be appointed to consider the 
establishment of chairs of agriculture 
at each of those institutions — he 
presumed because of his position as 
Chairman of the Education Commit- 
tee. The University College of North 
Wales had already at work an agri- 
cultural department, and agricultural 
sides were being established in several 
county schools. There was also a 
sum of money allocated to the County 
Councils, which he believed was avail- 
