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Report of the Education Committee 
commenced in 1865, of prizes and scholarships offered at the Oxford 
and Cambridge Local Examinations not having proved satisfactory. 
A proposal made in April 1867 by the Earl of Powis, on behalf of 
the Education Committee of that time, for the allocation of the 
Education Grant of 1867 in scholarships and prizes at the Uni- 
versity Local Examinations, led to an animated debate, in which Mr. 
Dent, M.P., the President (Mr. Thompson), Lord Walsingham, Mr. 
Holland, M.P., Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Mr. Randell, 
and Mr. Jabez Turner took part, and the motion was eventually 
negatived by 16 votes to 6. 
2. The Council held a special meeting on May 2, 1867, to 
decide what should be done in the matter ; and as the result it was 
resolved to have an examination of the Society’s own, to include 
“ the science and practice of Agriculture, Book-keeping, and one 
or more of the following subjects : Mechanics and their adaptation 
to Agriculture, Chemistry, Botany, Geology, Veterinary Science, 
Field Engineering, and Surveying.” 
3. At a meeting of the Council held on June 5, 1867, a com- 
mittee, consisting of the Earl of Powis, Major-General the Hon. 
A. N. Hood, Mr. Acland, M.P., Mr. Dent, M.P., Mr. Holland, M.P., 
Colonel Kingscote, M.P., Mr. Wren Hoskyns, Dr. Voelcker, Mr. 
Wells, Professor Wilson, and Mr. Frere, was appointed to carry out 
this scheme ; and in July 1867 Mr. Holland brought up a report 
containing the following recommendations, which are replanted as 
showing the original regulations of the Senior Examination : — 
1. That the first examination shall take place at the Society’s House in 
Hanover Square during the week commencing April 20, 18GS. 
2. That forms of entry be prepared, which are to be duly filled up and 
returned to the Secretary [together with a certificate of general education], 1 
on or before February 20, 1868. 
3. That the examinations shall be conducted by means of written papers, 
and by a viva voce examination [at which any member of the Society may 
be present]. 
4. That every candidate be required to satisfy the examiners in the 
science and practice of Agriculture and in Bjok-kecping, and also in one of 
the two following subjects : Land Surveying, and Mechanics as applied to 
Agriculture. 
5. That the successful candidates he placed in two classes, and he ar- 
ranged in order of merit. 
6. That candidates, in order to he placed in the first class, must satisfy 
the examiners in both the above-named subjects — Land Surveying, and Me- 
chanics applied to Agriculture, and also in Chemistry. 
7. That any candidate may oiler himself for examination in one or more 
of the following subjects : Botany, Geology, and Veterinary Science. Any 
knowledge which he may show of these subjects will be counted to his credit 
in the general classification, provided that he has fulfilled the foregoingcon- 
ditions, and provided that the knowledge of these subjects does not fall below 
the standard fixed as a minimum in each of these optional subjects. 
8. Each successful candidate obtaining a first-class certificate shall thereby 
become a life member of the Society. 
1 The words in brackets do not appear in the more recent regulations. 
