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Monthly Council, December 7, 1892. 
The Committee could not recommend 
that the request be complied with. 
The Committee recommended that 
in future Governors of the Society be 
allowed the same privileges in the 
Showyard as members of Council. 
The Committee had met nine times, 
and made nine reports. 
Selection. 
Earl Cathcaet (Chairman) re- 
ported officially the death of Mr. De 
Laune, a Member of the Council. The 
Committee thought that as only one 
member of Council now remained for 
the county of Kent, the vacancy 
should be filled up from that county. 
They proposed to consider at their 
next meeting the names of candidates 
that might be submitted to them. A 
letter had been read from Dr. 
Maercker, thanking the Society for 
his election as an honorary member. 
The Committee recommended that 
Mr. P. A. Muntz, M.P., be elected a 
Steward of Stock, and that Sir Joseph 
Spearman be elected a Steward of 
Implements ; and that the Committee 
of Inspection for the Country Meeting 
of 1894 be constituted as follows : — 
The President, Mr. Bowen- Jones, Sir 
John Thorold, Mr. Rowlandson, the 
Earl of Coventry, Mr. Stratton, and 
the Secretary. 
Dates of Council Meetings in 1893. 
A discussion arose as to the date of 
the meeting of Council to be held in 
April next. The first Wednesday of 
that month, which in the ordinary 
course would be the date of the 
meeting, falls in 1893 on Easter 
Wednesday, and it was therefore 
decided to hold the April meeting on 
Wednesday, April 12, 1893, instead 
of April 5. The following will there- 
fore be the dates of the monthly 
Council Meetings for the remainder 
of the session of 1893 : February 1, 
March 1, April 12, May 3, May 31, June 
21 (in Chester Showyard), and J uly 26. 
Education. 
Mr. Arkwright reported that the 
copies of the fourth edition of the 
Society’s Text Book on Agriculture 
were ready for issue. Copies of the 
German edition of the Text Book, 
published by Herr Paul Parey, of 
Berlin, were laid upon the table. Of 
the forty-three candidates from the 
thirteen schools who entered for the 
Society’s Junior Examinations on the 
8th and 9th ultimo, twenty-four 
obtained the qualifying number of 
marks. Of the twenty-four success- 
ful candidates, the first ten would 
receive scholarships upon complying 
with the Society's regulations, and 
the remainder would receive certifi- 
cates. The Committee presented a 
report on the results of the examina- 
tion for publication in the Journal 
(see p. 756). 
The Committee recommended that 
the usual honorarium be paid to 
the Examiners, and that letters of 
thanks be sent to these gentlemen, 
as well as to the Local Secretaries 
who conducted the examinations in 
the different centres. The attention 
of the Committee had been drawn to 
an announcement that the Devon 
County Council would award three 
scholarships of the value of iOl. a 
year each for three years upon the 
results of the Society’s Junior Exami- 
nation to candidates in the county 
of Devon. This was the first instance 
of the kind which had come to the 
notice of the Committee, and they 
welcomed the action of the Devon 
County Council as indicative of a 
practical interest in the educational 
work of the Society. They did not 
doubt but that other county councils 
might be induced to follow this 
example. A letter from the Kent 
County Council, asking if the Society 
would undertake the examination of 
students attending village lectures on 
the principles of agriculture, was 
read, and the Secretary directed to 
reply that the Society could not 
undertake this duty. Of the 5007. 
granted to the Committee for the 
year 1892, they had expended 4787. 
18a. \ \d., and they asked for a renewal 
of the grant for the year 1893. The 
Committee had met eight times and 
made eight reports. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker 
(Cliairman) reported that a further 
letter had been received from the 
