AvGUST I, I912] 
NATURE 569 
4oool, for research work. 
5ool. for (1) biochemical 
investigations on cheese ; 
(2) investigations on 
Teart land. 
210l. for investigations of 
Cambridge University 
Bristol University 
Yorkshire Council for 
Agricultural Educa- atmospheric impurities. 
tion (Leeds Univer- 
sity) 
University College, 2501. for general work on 
Reading (1) microflora of cheese ; 
(2) cereal selection. 
South-Eastern Agricul- 350l. for (1)  investiga- 
tural College, Wye tions on tobacco; (2) 
mycological depart- 
ment; (3)  entomo- 
logical department; (4) 
investigations on hop 
resins 
1561. for botanical survey 
of Aberystwyth: and 
subsidiary inquiries. 
1gol. for research on wart 
disease and finger-and- 
toe. 
13901. for investigations in 
University College of 
Wales, Aberystwyth 
Harper Adams Agricul- 
tural College 
Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege respect of vaccination 
against tuberculosis and 
other investigations. 
The Incorporated So- 2000l. for research work. 
ciety for extending 
the Rothamsted Ex- 
periments 
The British Dairy In- 60l. for investigation into 
stitute, Reading the manufacture of 
cheese from heated 
mills. 
Woburn Experimental 6001. for experimental 
Station work. 
The Treasury, on the recommendation of 
the | 
Development Commissioners, has sanctioned a further | 
interim advance to the Board of a sum not exceeding | 
gsol., or such part thereof as might be required in 
the financial year 1911-12, for the purpose of making 
the following grants : — 
(1) 2001. to the Economic Ornithological Committee 
of the British Association, to enable it to continue 
and extend its work of investigating the feeding 
habits of British birds. It was made a condition of 
this grant that the Board should, out of its own 
vote, make a grant to the committee of a sum of 
sol. in the year 1911-12. 
(2) sool. to the Imperial College of Science and 
| (i) Dairy investigation ... 
Technology towards the current expenses of the De- | 
partment of Plant Physiology. 
(3) Such sum as may be necessary, but not in any 
ease to exceed sol., to the Yorkshire Council for 
Agricultural Education, to defray expenses connected 
with Mr. T. H. Taylor’s investigations into the swede 
midge. 
(4) 2001. to the Midland Agricultural and Dairy 
College for research into the discoloration of Stilton 
cheese. 
(ii.) General Scheme. 
The Treasury has informed the Board that it 
had received the final recommendations of the De- 
velopment Commissioners on the Board’s application 
for the advance of 50,0001. per annum referred to 
above, and that it had sanctioned the following 
scheme :— 
(1) Grants to Colleges in Aid of the Extension of 
Advisory and Local Investigation Work.—An annual 
advance to the Board of a sum not exceeding 12,000l. 
for apportionment between twelve colleges so situated 
as to cover the whole country. 
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(2) Research Scholarships.—An advance to the 
Board of a sum of 16,500/. for the provision of 36 
scholarships of the value of 150l. each. per annum, 
tenable for the period of three years; 12 to be given 
in IgII, 12 in 1912, and 12 in 1913. The advance 
will include fees of selection, and will, it is expected, 
be spread over the five years Ig11-12 to 1915-16 in- 
clusive. 
(3) Grants to Institutions in Aid of Scientific Re- 
| search and Experiment.—An annual advance to the 
Board of a sum not exceeding 30,0001. to provide for 
the carrying out of work on the following eleven 
subjects at the institutions specified in each case :— 
(a) Plant physiology Imperial College of Science 
and Technology. 
A special department of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew. 
Cambridge University and 
the John Innes Institu- 
tion. 
The main centre will be at 
the National Fruit and 
Cider Institute at Long 
Ashton (in connection 
with the Bristol Univer- 
sity), and there should 
be two or three sub- 
(b) Plant pathology, my- 
cological side 
(c) Plant Breeding 
(d) Fruit Growing 
sidiary stations situated 
in the chief fruit-growing 
districts. 
(e) Plant nutrition and Rothamsted Experimental 
soil problems Station. 
Cambridge University and 
another Institute to be 
settled later. 
Two institutes to be settled 
later. 
In the meantime the Com- 
missioners agreed to a 
grant of qool. for work 
on the breeding of small 
animals. 
The Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege and the Board’s 
Veterinary Laboratory. 
The University College, 
Reading, or another suit- 
able institution. 
To be divided possibly be- 
tween two universities, 
one being given economic 
entomology and the other 
general zoology, especi- 
ally helmintology. 
Oxford University. 
(f) Animal nutrition 
(g) Animal breeding 
(h) Animal pathology 
(j) Agricultural zoology... 
(k) Economics of agri- 
culture 
The Commissioners stated that they would be pre- 
pared to consider applications for a grant of 50 per 
cent. of the capital expenditure required for the estab- 
lishment of some of the institutions, leaving the other 
‘so per cent. to be raised by the institution or locality 
concerned, unless there were very special circum- 
stances to justify a larger grant from the Deyvelop- 
ment Fund. 
(4) Special Investigations and Researches.—An 
annual advance to the Board of a sum not exceeding 
30001. to be allocated for the assistance of particular 
investigations and researches not otherwise provided 
for. 
Provision for 1911-12.—The Treasury, on the re- 
commendation of the Development Commissioners, 
sanctioned an advance to the Board of a sum _ not 
exceeding 3000!. to meet the expenses involved in 
