TRANSACTIONS OK SECTION F. 745 



4,190,000 to 4,140,000 acres. Tbe estimated yield of corn has in the same period 

 gone dovrn (by quinquennial averages) from !>"7 to 58 million bushels in the case 

 of wheat ; Irom 82 to 66 million bushels in the case of barley ; and the yield of 

 oats has risen from 147 to l'")l million bushels. 



The imports have in the same period gone up steadily and rapidly ; -while the 

 amount remaining for home consumption per head of population has steadily 

 diminished. The fall in the case of wheat amounts to an equivalent of 24 lb. 

 bread per annum. In the above maize has not been included. 



Somewhat similar results follow an e.vamination of the meat-supplies of the 

 country. The consumption of beef is estimated to have increased from 680,000 

 to 7.^0,000 tons ; of mutton there has been a decrease from 420,000 to ;390,000 

 tons; while pig meats have remained stationary at about 290,000 tons. In addi- 

 tion to these, imported meats have increased enormously. The consumption per 

 head of all kinds of meats has also greatly increased. 



The yield of home-produced butter and cheese has not increased. Measured 

 by the consumption per head, the butter (including margarine) consumed has 

 increased from 11 lbs. to nearly 16 lbs. per annum, while the cheese has re- 

 mained quite stationary at 13^ lb. per annum. 



Further tables are given relating to coal. The first compares the growth of 

 the production of the principal coal-countries with the total world's production.^ 

 The second compares the production and consumption, total and per head of 

 population, of coal from 1872 to 1901. The third gives an analysis of coal con- 

 sumption for the principal British industries. Further tables relating to pig iron 

 and wool are also given, and the whole is further illustrated by charts, 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. The Potentialities of Applied Science in a Garden City. 

 By A. R. Sennett, A.M.Inst.C.E. 



The author drew attention to the economical and other advantages to be 

 derived from careful coalition of the various branches of science involved in the 

 building up of a modern city, in the case of such being reared upon terra natura, 

 and entirely unhampered by considerations of prior design or demolition. He 

 pointed out that the epoch at which we have now arrived in these islands, in 

 regard to the existence and development of large towns, had led to the almost 

 entire abandonment of hope that any scheme compassing the much needed ' return 

 to the land ' could ever now be consummated ; and announced that, not only had 

 such a scheme at length been evolved, but that, in a practicable and workable 

 form, it is at once to be put to experimental test upon a scale amply sufficient to 

 demonstrate its successful working, viz. in a community of from 25,000 to 30,000 

 inhabitants. 



He attributed the inception and successful maturation of the scheme to 

 Mr. Ebenezer Howard. The basis upon which it was founded was the assump- 

 tion that, given the freehold acquisition of a site of sufiicient extent and at 

 moderate cost, ve.sted in trustees in the interests of the future community, tbe 

 financial success of the undertaking can be assured — no matter to what magnitude 

 it may eventually be carried — by the reservation for the benefit of ihe community 

 of the increment in terrestrial value of such site due to the emplacement thereon 

 of a city laid out upon such lines that overcrowding is an impossibility, pro- 

 viding for the allotment per capita of such an extent of ground area as to entitle 

 the creation to the cognomen of a ' Garden City.' 



The coalition of public works, in the author's opinion, was prepollent to 

 produce not only economip resujts, but an hygiei;ic city free frop; smoke and fog, 



