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number of seedlings with which the breeder always has to deal. It was 
pointed out that the value of several of Farrer’s wheats must be due 
to their high migration factor. Farrer’s work was discussed at some 
length, and the President of the Association pointed out how he w orked 
on “Mendelian lines in pre-Mendelian days, in that he bred his stocks 
from individuals picked out in the second and succeeding generations 
of cross-breds. 
Dairying is an industry of great importance in Australia, and 
received considerable attention in the Section by means of discussions on 
milk yields and milk records, and on the current types of milking 
machines, without which dairying can hardly be carried on in Aus- 
tralia. Some of the members of the Section interested in this side 
of the work spent a large proportion of their available time amongst the 
dairying in the coastal “districts of New South Wales and Queensland, 
and were greatly impressed by the labour-saving devices that have 
there been adopted. The problems of wool character and wool inherit- 
ance were raised both in the meetings and in the field, and though it 
will be long before so complex a character is brought under control, 
the question did receive some elucidation which may serve as a basis 
for future work. 
The members of the Section owe a particular debt of thanks to the 
Agricultural Departments of the various States; in every case special 
arrangements were made for them, individually and collectively, so that 
each man had the opportunity of seeing the local work in which he was 
most interested. 
RESOLUTION BY THE COUNCIL. 
At the Meeting of the Council of the Association held in London on 
November 6, 1914, it was resolved :— 
‘ That the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science, at its first Meeting in London since the return of Members from 
Australia, desires to place on “record its high appreciation of the generous recep- 
tion given to the Members of the Overseas. Party throughout the Commonwealth 
by representatives of the Governments of the Commonwealth and the States, 
and by other authorities and Australian citizens generally, on the occasion of 
the Meeting of the Association in Australia in 1914. The Council hereby 
expresses its grateful thanks for the hospitality, privileges and concessions 
extended so freely to visiting Members, and also for the willing and valuable 
collaboration of all those who undertook so successfully the work of organisation 
in Australia in connection with the Meeting.’ 
