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the science of agriculture, that is to say, chemistry, geology, 
botany, and physics : and in a second division the mechanics 
of agriculture and the management of the land under the head 
of rotations, improvement of the soil, live-stock, economics, 
farm-engineering and construction, and agricultural policy, 6:c., 
are treated of. 
Attendance at these lectures is quite optional with students, 
as the subject is not included in those required to be passed in 
order to obtain any degree. The attendance has never been 
very large, ranging from about 12 to 80 or 40, but it is under- 
stood that lately the attendances have increased, and in 1882 
14 students qualified for their certificates. The majority of 
the students are sons of tenant farmers, and young men quali- 
fving: themselves for estate management or for farming in the 
colonies. There is no entrance examination, and no certificate 
of previous education is required. 
A very important scholarship has lately been founded by 
the ^Misses Stevens of Bellahouston, in memory of their brother. 
This scholarship consists of the annual proceeds of 2000/. The 
scholar is required to visit and report upon the annual exhi- 
bitions of the four leading agricultural societies in the three 
kingdoms, namely : — 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England ; 
The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; 
The Roj al Agricultural Society of Ireland ; 
The Bath and West of England Society ; 
or such of them as the Professor of Agriculture shall appoint ; 
and the report, if approved by the Professor, is to be sent to the 
agricultural journals for publication. 
County Schools. 
Agriculture is being taught to some extent in various County 
Schools in the kingdom ; and although none of these can be 
called agricultural schools in the proper sense of the term, 
several of them have shown the possibility of agriculture being 
included in their ordinary teaching, by sending with success 
pupils to the junior examinations of the Royal Agricultural 
Society. Among such schools may be named 
The Surrey County School, Cranleigh, near Guildford ; 
The Bedford County School, Bedford : 
The Devon County School, West Buckland ; 
The Dorset County School, Dorchester ; 
The Norfolk County School, Elmham ; and 
The Agricultural and Commercial School, Aspatria, Cumber- 
land. 
