532 Report on Agricultural Education. 
Other candidates must satisfy the Education Committee of their 
fitness to compete by sending certificates of education, or of their 
having passed any examination in connection with the Science 
and Art Department, or of any University in the United 
Kingdom. 
"Any head-master intending to enter candidates for these 
scholarships, and any candidate intending to enter himself, must 
inform the Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of his in-, 
tention to do so, on or before the first of October in each year. 
All entries must be made on or before October 15th, and these 
final entries must give the Christian and surname, as well as the 
date of birth, of each candidate entered. 
" Annual examinations will be held in the month of 
November, simultaneously at such schools as have candidates, 
and at the Society's Rooms in Hanover Square ; and the scholar- 
ships will be awarded to the boys who obtain the highest 
aggregate number of marks. 
" The subjects for examination for the scholarships will be : — 
(1) Land surveying ; (2) Elementary Mechanics as applied to 
Agriculture ; (3) Chemistry as applied to Agriculture ; (4) the 
Principles of Agriculture, especially with reference to the rotation 
of crops, the nutrition of plants and animals, and the mechanical 
cultivation of the soil." 
During the time that these examinations have been in force, 
that is to say since 1874, the number of candidates has been 
pretty uniform in each year. The maximum number has been 
40, and the minimum 22. In no case have more than six schools 
competed, and in two years all the ten scholarships have been 
awarded. Singularly, in both these cases, an eleventh candidate 
would have passed had not the number of scholarships been 
limited. 
Veterinary Grants. — Until very recently a subscription of 
200Z. was annually voted by the Council of the Society to the 
Royal Veterinary College towards the establishment and main- 
tenance of a Chair of Cattle Pathology ; but of late years the 
Society has endeavoured by the offer of medals and money 
prizes, awarded after a special examination, to induce veterinary 
surgeons, soon after taking their degree, to turn their special 
attention to the treatment of the diseases of cattle, sheep, and 
pigs. It is considered that, as by far the most lucrative part of 
a veterinary surgeon's practice is that connected with horses, the 
diseases of the other animals of the farm are very liable to be 
neglected by him, especially as the farmer has the ready remedy 
of the knife, which is applicable in many cases of the sort. 
The first prize offered by the Society is a gold medal and 20/., 
the second prize a silver medal and 10/., and the third prize a 
