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less the result of Government interference. The Veterinary 
Colleges in London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow are named. The 
Science and Art Department, through which alone the help of 
Government comes, includes both higher instruction by courses 
of lectures at the Normal School of Science, and the lower 
instruction in the principles of Agriculture, encouraged by 
the payment of fees to teachers in Elementary Schools and 
Science classes. The small grant here made has had the effect 
of bringing up a large number of candidates, beginning with 
150 in 1876, and increasing to 4679 in 1882, of whom 2965 
passed the elementary stage, and 1509 the advanced stage, and 
205 the honours stage ; the examination being conducted by 
Mr. Henry Tanner and his assistants. It is related that the 
total number of evening classes in Agriculture at the date of 
the last return was for England and Wales 193, Scotland 33, 
and Ireland 126, including altogether 6,176 students, and the 
grants to teachers amount to 3300Z. These classes are almost 
universally held in market towns, and only rarely touch villages, 
except in cases where a teacher takes a circuit of villages, or 
small market towns around a larger circle, visiting each place 
once a week. It is by no means certain that these evening 
classes, notwithstanding this account of them, do all the work for 
which they are credited. Mr. Jenkins then devotes some sixty 
pages to a discussion of the educational work of his own Society, 
and of other Societies and Institutions, some of which receive 
no Government aid whatever. The prosecution of Agricultural 
education is the seventh of the objects for which this Society 
was incorporated by Royal Charter. The duty is thus laid upon 
it of taking measures for the improvement of the education 
of those who depend upon the cultivation of the soil for their 
support. It is not however in direct educational work alone 
that the Society has carried out this object of its Charter — its 
Journal, its relations with veterinary education, its field experi- 
ments, and its farm prizes are all of them forces tending in 
the same direction. Its Examinations and its Scholarships are 
however direct efforts of the same kind. The work of the 
Society of Arts and of the Highland and Agricultural Society 
of Scotland is also referred to ; and at length we come to what 
may be rightly called the great honour and glory of our country, 
so far as Agricultural guidance and education are concerned — 
the labours of Sir J. B. Lawes and Dr. Gilbert at Rothamsted. 
Besides all this due credit is given to the recent efforts to 
found a Dairy School, which are now at length in process of 
accomplishment. 
Ireland is the subject of a special Report ; Glasnevin and 
Templemoyle, and the Munster Dairy School, and the Travelling 
