In addition to the class examinations students are required to pass the University Diploma Examinations conducted with the aid of external examiners in all the subjects for the Diploma. The examination in Preparatory Chemistry must be passed before the student goes up for Agricultural Chemistry.

Before a candidate for the Diploma can receive this qualification, he must satisfy the Examiners in Principles of Agriculture that he possesses a practical knowledge of Agriculture, obtained by residence on a farm for a period, or periods, covering at least a complete year of farming operations. It will be at the discretion of the Examiners in Principles of Agriculture to give any student a practical examination on the College Farm.

It is strongly recommended that students gain their practical farm experience before they take out the class of Principles of Agriculture.

Although Forestry is not a subject qualifying for the Diploma in Agriculture, candidates who satisfy the examiners in that subject shall have a special entry made on their Diploma to that effect.

Students who entered on their course for the Diploma before Session 1915-16 can complete their course of study under the Old Regulations. These Regulations are stated in the Calendar for 1914-15, pages 320 and 321.

Examination.

The Examination Papers for the Diploma are the same as for the Degree. The Examinations are held twice a year, in March and July, and intending candidates must lodge their names with the Secretary, Marischal College, ten days before the commencement of the examinations.

CLASS FEES IN AGRICULTURE.

1. A special composition fee of £9 9s. per year, including both Winter and Summer Sessions (exclusive of the matriculation fee of £1 1s.), has been fixed for the classes comprised in the Course for the University Diploma in Agriculture.

2. Students from towns and counties contributing to the funds of the Agricultural College, who are not going forward to the Diploma, are entitled to an abatement of one-third of the fees stated for such of the individual classes taken by them as form part of the UniversityDiploma course.

Note.-The above Regulations do not apply to the Class Fee for Physics, which must be paid in full.

BURSARIES IN AGRICULTURE.

The Sir James Campbell, LL.D., Bursaries.

Founded in 1915 by Sir James Campbell, LL. D., Chairman of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture and Ex-Convener of the County of Banff, and consisting of four Bursaries of the annual value of about £30 each, to be held by students attending the University of Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture.

The Bursaries are administered by a body of Patrons consisting of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the College of Agriculture, the Principal of the University, and the StrathconaFordyce Professor of Agriculture, on the following conditions :

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1. Candidates for the Bursaries must be Students not under seventeen years of age, taking an organised course of study for a Degree or Diploma in Agriculture in the University of Aberdeen.

2. Two Bursaries shall be awarded by the Patrons every year after the conclusion of each Winter Session, provided suitable Candidates apply.

3. Candidates must have been engaged during the preceding Winter Session in the study of the subjects pertaining to the first year of study for such Degree or Diploma.

4. In awarding the Bursaries the Patrons will take into account in the first place the record of the Candidates during the Session in which they apply; in the second place, their need for the assistance of a Bursary.

5. The Bursaries shall be tenable for two years, during which time the holders must continue their agricultural studies at the University of Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture to the satisfaction of the Patrons.

6. Any surplus revenue accruing through vacancies in the Bursaries or otherwise shall be added to capital, unless the Patrons in any year direct otherwise.

7. It shall be in the power of the Patrons to fill up any vacancy that may occur in a Bursary, and in special cases to present a Bursary to a student in the second or subsequent year of his studies.

8. It shall be in the power of the Patrons to frame any further Regulations that may be necessary for the carrying out of the foregoing provisions, and if need be to alter or amend the same, subject always to the main purpose of the benefaction being -secured.

SCHOLARSHIPS IN AGRICULTURE (TROPICAL).

The Joseph Fraser Bursaries.

Founded in 1915 at the instance of a Committee consisting of the Chairman of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, and the Low Country Products Association of Ceylon. The Bursaries were founded as a memorial to the late Mr. Joseph Fraser of Aberdeen, Planter in Ceylon, and are three in number, of the annual value of £40 each, tenable for three years. Further particulars may be had from Mr. A. O. Whiting, 6 Laurence Pountney Hill, Cannon Street, London, E.C.

DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY.

The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry is conferred in accordance with the Regulations contained in the following Ordin

ance :—

ORDINANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, No. 6 (INSTITUTION OF DEGREE IN SCIENCE IN FORESTRY AND RELATIVE REGULATIONS).

At Aberdeen, the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen years.

Whereas, by section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, it is enacted that after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act, the University Court of each University shall have power to make such Ordinances as they think fit, with the approval of His Majesty in Council: inter alia (Subsection 2) "altering or revoking any of the Ordinances affecting such University which have been or may be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or this Act, and making new Ordinances".

And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners have expired :

And whereas it is expedient that the University of Aberdeen, in order to encourage higher education in Forestry, should institute a Degree in Science in Forestry and frame Regulations therefor;

Therefore the University Court of the University of Aberdeen hereby statutes and ordains as follows:

I. A Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry may be conferred by the University of Aberdeen.

II. Every candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry must pass the Preliminary Examination prescribed for

Degrees in Science in Agriculture by Ordinance, Aberdeen No. 27 (Regulations for Degrees in Science in Agriculture) as amended by General Ordinance No. 38 (Regulations for Degrees in Science -Supplementary).

III. (1) Candidates must, in the course of not less than three academic years, attend courses of instruction in the subjects specified in Section VII. of this Ordinance.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Senatus to determine from time to time which of the said courses shall be full courses and which shall be half courses respectively, and also to determine the number of meetings of which such full courses and half courses respectively shall consist, and to report its determination to the University Court for approval.

IV. (1) Five full courses or their equivalent, counting two half courses as one full course, must be taken in the University of Aberdeen and must include the course in Forestry.

(2) The remainder of the said courses may be taken in other Universities or Institutions approved by the University Court for purposes of Graduation in Science in Forestry.

Provided that the Court is satisfied that such courses of instruction are equivalent to the courses sanctioned in the University of Aberdeen.

V. Residence and practical work in forests shall be required of each candidate to such extent and under such regulations as the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may from time to time appoint.

Provided always that such residence and practical work shall include a period of at least six months before the candidate has commenced study of the subjects included under the Final Examination.

VI. (1) It shall be the duty of the Professors and Lecturers at the end of the second term of each academic year to submit to the Senatus (through the proper Board of Studies and the Faculty of Science) a scheme specifying what proportion of the courses shall be devoted to lectures, practical demonstrations, examinations and tutorial work respectively. The Senatus shall transmit such scheme, with such observations as they may think fit to make thereon, to the University Court for approval.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Professors and Lecturers at the end of the second term of each academic year to submit to the Faculty of Science (through the proper Board of Studies) a syllabus of the subjects and books proposed for the work of their classes during the next academic year. The Faculty of Science shall transmit such syllabus, with such observations as they may think fit to make thereon, to the Senatus for approval.

VII. The subjects of study shall be as follows :

1. Botany.

2. Zoology.

3. Natural Philosophy.

4. Chemistry.

5. Geology.

6. Forest Botany.

7. Forest Zoology.

8. Forest Chemistry (Soils, Plants and Forest Products). 9. Forest Surveying.

10. Economics.

11. Forestry.

(a) Sylviculture.

(b) Protection of Woodlands.

Forest Management.

Utilisation of Forest Products.

Provided always that, in case the provision of additional facilities for study or the advance of science renders modifications of this Curriculum desirable, the University Court, after consultation with the Senatus, shall have power to make such modifications, that the University Court shall communicate to the General Council all such modifications, and that any representation made thereon by the General Council within two months from the date of communication shall be taken into consideration by the Court before approval of such modification.

Provided further that the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, shall have power to make Regulations, from time to time, regarding the order in which the subjects of the Curriculum are to be studied, the standard of the Degree Examinations and the conditions of admission thereto.

FIRST SCIENCE EXAMINATION.

VIII. (1) There shall be a First Science Examination in the four following subjects, viz.: (1) Botany, (2) Zoology, (3) Natural Philosophy, (4) Chemistry.

(2) The examination in all these subjects shall be of the same standard as the First Science Examination in these subjects for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Pure Science.

(3) Candidates may present themselves in any one or more of the subjects of the First Science Examination at any examination held after they have attended a full course in the subject, or subjects, professed.

Candidates are recommended to attend the Practical Classes in Botany, Zoology and Geology.