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6. Only two candidates failed in Chemistry, whereas last year 
no less than eight, or half of the competitors, proved unable to pasS 
in this subject. The Examiner in General Chemistry (Professor 
Liveing) makes no comments upon the Examination ; but the 
Examiner in Agricultural Chemistry (Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker) 
remarks that " with one exception the papers have been very satisfac- 
tory indeed, and, considering the number of candidates, there has been 
a wonderful evenness of character throughout. All but one of the 
thirteen candidates obtained two-thirds or more of the marks obtain- 
able ; and one candidate lost only nine marks in the written and 
two marks in the viva-voce examination." 
7. The Examiner in Book-keeping (Mr. C. Gay Roberts) points 
out that one candidate obtained full marks and observes that "most 
of the candidates succeeded fairly well in the journalising and post- 
ing, but in drawing out the Profit and Loss Account and the 
Balance Sheet many of them failed." 
8. The Examiner in Mensuration and Land Surveying (the 
Rev. Professor Twisden) reports that " the first five questions [see 
page 4H] were in many cases correctly answered, and for the most 
part in such a way as not to call for remark. In question 1, how- 
ever, the answer was often found in Yards, though the form of the 
question seems to suggest Chains and Links. In question 2, when 
the first part has been answered, the second diameter might be seen 
to be four and a half times the first. The answer was found, in all 
bat one instance, by a long independent process. Nearly all the 
solutions of question 5 depended on the prolongation of a short line. 
In question 6 the scale suggested is small, but this causes no difii- 
culty in drawing the diagram, and I should have expected that all 
the candidates would have got so far as to make the plan ; but this 
Avas by no means the case. In two or three instances, however, not 
only was the plan drawn, but a verj' good approximation to the area 
was also obtained in spite of the smallness of the scale. Question 7 
was answered, on the Avhole, very well. There were, of course, 
several mistakes in the work of one and another ; but in a good 
many instances the form was rightly completed, and the section 
correctly drawn. The calculation in question 8 proved to be beyond 
the powers of the candidates, as was the case with a similar question 
last year." 
9. The Examiner in Agricultural Engineering (Dr. William 
Anderson) reports that, upon the whole, the work done this year is 
better than last. He says : — "The sketching and drawing is again bad, 
and points, I think, to a defect in the curriculum of the agricultural 
and science colleges, because no less than ten out of the thirteen 
candidates have had college training. The reason why I insist upon 
the importance of drawing is because I am persuaded that it is the 
best means of making the students acquainted with the details of 
mechanism of the implements which they will have to use and keep 
in repair. By way of illustration of my meaning I may mention 
that twelve candidates attempted question 16 — 'Sketch an ordinary 
cartwheel and describe its various parts.' The answers were poor 
in every case, and the state of knowledge is well illustrated by the 
