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commenced, and that timber and 
other materials for the works were 
being recei%'ed. The Local Committee 
were laying down the sleeper roads 
and water mains. The Surveyor's 
accounts had been passed, and various 
recommendations as to payments were 
I presented. An offer from the Shap 
Granite and Patent Concrete Com- 
pany, Limited, to lay the flooring of 
the dairy with their patent granite 
concrete, free of charge, had been 
accepted. 
Education. 
Lord MoBETOX (Chairman) an- 
j nounced that the Committee had 
carefully considered a report pre- 
sented by the Sub-Committee, to 
whom had been remitted the subject 
of text-books in agriculture for use 
in elementary and continuation 
I schools ; and they agreed with the 
I Sub-Committee in thinking that the 
I preparation of a text-book ought to 
I be undertaken by the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society. They recommended, 
therefore, that such a test-book 
should be prepared under the auspices 
of the Society, and should be pub- 
lished with its authority. 
Various letters and documents re- 
lating to technical education in pgri- 
culture had been laid upon the table. 
The following time-table for the 
Senior Examination to be held next 
May had been considered and ap- 
proved : — 
Tuesday, Itay 12. 
Land Surveying .... 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
Agriculture (written paper) 2 p.m. „ 5 p.m. 
Wefliiesday, May 13. 
Agricultural Engineering . 10 a.m. ,, 1 p.m. 
Agricultural (t trd row) . 2 p.m. „ 5 p.m. 
Thursday, May 14. 
Chemistry (General) ... 10 a.m. „ 1 p.m. 
Chemistry (Agricultural) . 2 p.m. „ 5 p.m. 
Friday. May 15. 
Book-keeping 10 a.m. „ 1 p.m. 
Botany 2 p.m. „ 4 p.m. 
Agricultural Entomology . 4 p.m. „ 5 p.m. 
Saturday, May IC. 
Geology 10 a.m. „ 1 p.m. 
Anatomy 2 p.m. „ 4 p.m. 
In the course of the discussion on 
this report, Lord Moreton said that 
the Committee quite felt that the 
price of the proposed text-book must 
be kept as low as possible. 
Mr. Dent said he would like to 
suggest that after they had issued 
this text-book the Society should 
endeavour, if it could, to get out some 
good reading-books. The text-book 
would be a thoroughly scientific hand- 
book to agriculture; but really the 
reading-books which children had in 
the elementary schools for the poorer 
classes were most unsuitable. Books 
that would give an interest to the 
children in country life would be far 
more useful. He remembered an old 
book called " Eyes and no Eyes," 
which described what one could see 
and learn in the country if one used 
one's eyes, and how much one might 
lose by not using one's eyes. If such 
reading-books were obtainable, they 
would be a great deal more useful 
than those now in existence ; but, for 
the present, the Society had enough 
to do. 
Country Meeting of 1892. 
On the motion of the Hon. Cecil 
T. Paekeb, seconded by Sir Jacob 
WiLSOX, the Society's seal was au- 
thorised to be affixed to the agreement 
with the Corporation of Warwick as 
to the Country Meeting of 1892. 
International Agricultural Congress 
at the Hague. 
The Secretary reported that he 
had received a communication from 
the Executive Committee of the 
International Agricultural Congress 
which would be held at the Hague 
from September 7th to 12th nest, 
asking him to undertake for England 
the issue of programmes and the 
giving of information relative to the 
Congress to those interested in the 
subject. Permission to do this was 
granted by the Council. 
Dates of forthcoming Meetings. 
Various letters and other documents 
having been laid upon the table, the 
Council adjourned until Wednesday, 
April 8th, 1891 (instead of April 1st, 
Easter Wednesday) ; and it was at 
the same time arranged that the re- 
maining meetings of the session 
should be held on the following 
dates : — Wednesdays, May 6th, June 
3rd, June 24th (in the Doncaster 
Showyard), and July 29th. 
