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" First year : — First term, Chemistry ; Second term, Me- 
chanics and Mechanical Drawing, with Mathematics and Free- 
hand Drawing in both terms. 
" Second year : — First term, Physics, Part 1, Elements of 
Astronomy ; Second term. Geology, Part 1, including Minera- 
logy, Mathematics, and Geometrical and Mechanical Drawing 
throughout both terms. 
" Third year : — First term. Biology, Parts 1 and 2 ; Second 
term. Ditto, Parts 3 and 4, Mechanics. 
" Fourth year : — Principles of Agriculture and Agricultural 
Chemistry." 
It would occupy far too much space to detail here the code 
of regulations as to agricultural education at the Normal School 
of Science, or the way in which the promotion of agricultural 
education has been attempted by the Education Department in 
elementary schools. Professor Tanner and his coadjutors are 
very sanguine of success, but it is too early at present to judge of 
the results. 
Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
The Royal Charter of Incorporation of this Society contains 
the following paragraph : — " To take measures for the improve- 
ment of the education of those who depend upon the cultivation 
of the soil for their support." But although it is obvious that 
a great portion of the work of the Society has been directed 
towards teaching agriculture by its annual Shows, its trials of 
implements, and in other similar ways, the object in question 
remained a dead letter for upwards of a quarter of a century 
after the establishment of the Society. Mr. J. Chalmers 
INIorton aroused attention on the subject by a speech which he 
made at a general meeting of members in 1863. This speech 
was followed by an exhaustive lecture to the members in 1865. 
Mr. Morton in this lecture attempted to show what the Society 
could do towards carrying into effect the object already men- 
tioned in the charter. The early attempts of the Council of 
the Society were not very fruitful in results. They first offered 
a prize of 50/. for an essay on agricultural education, and three 
essays which competed for this prize were published in the 
Society's Journal for 1866. Next they offered to candidates 
who shall be recommended by any member of the Society, and 
who must be persons in some way dependent on the cultivation 
of the land for their support, or intending to make agriculture 
their profession, the following prizes : — 
100/. amongst those who shall pass the Cambridge or Oxford 
senior or junior examinations. 
