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CONDITIONS EELATING TO THE EDUCATIONAL 
EXAMINATIONS, 1870. 
1. The next examination will take place at the Society's house in Hanover 
Square, during the week commencing Tuesday, April 26th, 1870. 
2. Forms of entry duly filled up, together with a certificate of general 
education, must be returned to the Secretary, on or before the 31st of March, 
1870. 
3. No Candidate will be eligible for the Society's honours and prizes who 
has completed his twenty-first year previous to March 31st, 1870. 
4. The examinations will be conducted by means of written papers, and by 
a viva voce examination at which any member of the Society may be present. 
5. Every candidate will be required to satisfy the Examiners in the Science 
^Chemistry) and Practice of Agriculture, and in Book-keeping; and also 
in one of the two following subjects: Land Surveying, and Mechanics as 
applied to Agriculture. 
G. The successful candidates will be placed in two classes, and arranged in 
order of merit. 
7. Candidates, in order to be placed in the first class, must satisfy the 
Examiners in both the above-named subjects — Land Surveying and Mechanics 
as applied to Agriculture. 
8. Any Candidate may offer himself for examination in one or more of the 
following subjects, viz. : — Botany, Geology, or Anatomy. Any knowledge 
which he may show of these subjects will be counted to his credit in the 
general classification, provided that he shall have fulfilled the foregoing con- 
ditions, and provided that the knowledge of these subjects do not fall below 
the standard fixed as a minimum in each of these optional subjects. 
9. Each successful candidate obtaining a first-class certificate shall thereby 
become a life-member of the Society. 
10. The following prizes will be awarded to successful candidates placed in 
the first class for aggregate merit : — First Prize, 30Z. ; Second Prize, 201. ; 
Third Prize, 101. 
11. The following additional Prizes will be awarded to the candidates who 
shall show the highest merit in each subject respectively : — 
Money or Books 
to the value of 
' £ 
Science and Practice of Agriculture 10 
Mechanics 10 
Chemistry 10 
Book-keeping 10 
Botany and Vegetable Physiology 5 
Geology 5 
Anatomy and Animal Physiology 5 
Land Surveying 5 
12. Certificates, to be termed first and second-class certificates, will be 
granted to candidates placed in the first and second class ; such certificates to 
specify the subjects in which the candidate shall have satisfied the examiners. 
