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Treble, A. . .Halsdon Barton, Cookbury, Bran- 
dis Corner, Devon. 
Turnbull, J.. .15 Hudson Street, Tyne Dock, 
South Shields. 
Westgarth, John. .Brougham Home Farm, 
Earnout Bridge, Penrith. 
Wetherell, James. .Tempsford, Sandy. 
Yorke, J. C...Trecwu, Letterston, Pembroke. 
Young, E. Burney. .35, Walbrook, E.C. 
Education Life Memberships. 
Lord Mobeton (Chairman of the 
Education Committee) said that the 
Council would be aware that at the 
November meeting the consideration 
of the proposals of the Education 
Committee with reference to the 
granting in future of Life Member- 
ships of the Society, as rewards at the 
Senior Examination, had been post- 
poned owing to the large amount of 
other business to be transacted on 
that occasion. The Education Com- 
mittee had again carefully considered 
the question, with a view of meeting 
as far as possible the opinions which 
had been expressed by members of the 
Council, and they had agreed upon a 
report, which he now laid upon the 
table (see page 751). Following up 
the recommendations of that report, 
he begged formally to move on be- 
half of the Committee — 
1. That in future five Life Memberships 
be placed annually at the disposal of the 
Education Committee, to be awarded to 
those candidates at the Society’s Senior 
Examination who stand highest on the list 
of winners of first-class certificates, and 
who obtain not less than two-thirds of the 
maximum number of marks. 
2. That no money prizes be offered for the 
future at the Senior Examination, but that 
instead thereof the Society’s gold medal be 
awarded to the candidate who stands highest 
on the list, and the Society’s silver medal to 
each of the next four candidates on the list, 
provided that in each case the candidate has 
obtained the number of marks qualifying for 
a Life Membership. 
3. That the winner of a gold medal be 
permitted to style himself “ Gold Medallist 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 
land ” ; and the winner of a silver medal, 
“ Silver Medallist of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England.” 
4. That these proposals be embodied in the 
regulations for the next Examination, to be 
held in May 1895, now submitted in draft. 
5. That the Report of the Education 
Committee on this subject be received and 
adopted, and be printed in the Journal for 
general information. 
Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell having 
seconded the motion, 
Mr. Sutton said that he was very 
reluctant, after the great trouble 
which his Lordship and the individual 
members of the Committee had 
taken in the matter, to propose any 
amendment ; but he hoped that the 
Council and Lord Moreton himself 
would agree to the proposal that the 
award of the Society’s gold medal to 
the candidate placed first in the Exam- 
ination should be conditional upon his 
having obtained three-fourths of the 
maximum number of marks. It 
appeared to him to be highly unde- 
sirable that the Society’s gold medal 
should be given to anyone who was 
not facile princcpg, or who was not 
really a first-rate man. He took it as 
being quite clear that they did not 
wish the gold medal to be given 
one year to a man who was decidedly 
inferior to the candidate receiving it 
another year. He would propose 
that, where there was no such 
specially good man who had earned 
three-fourths of the total marks, 
no gold medal should be given, but 
that five silver medals should be given 
instead of one gold and four silver 
medals. He considered that this was 
a question of great moment, and that 
it would be very unfortunate if it were 
not now finally settled. He did not 
wish to throw the matter into the 
crucible again, but hoped that Lord 
Moreton would see his way to accept- 
ing his (Mr. Sutton’s) small amend- 
ment. 
Mr. Sanday seconded the motion, 
and expressed himself as thoroughly 
in accord with all that Mr. Sutton had 
said. 
Lord Moreton was not altogether 
sorry that this question had beeD 
raised, and no one was better quali- 
fied to raise it than Mr. Sutton, who 
had taken so much interest in the 
matter. The Committee sat yesterday 
longer than he ever remembered it to 
sit before — from 3.30 p.m. to 5.30p.m., 
and a considerable portion of that 
time was devoted to the question as 
to whether there should be a two- 
thirds or a three-fourths standard. 
Although the difference between the 
two did not appear very considerable 
at first sight, the statistics which had 
been compiled as to the percentage of 
marks gained by the successful candi- 
dates showed that three-fourths of the 
marks were gained by only a small 
proportion of the candidates. As, 
however, he understood Mr. Sutton’s 
