TRANSACTIONS OP SECTION K. 491 



College, Reading (Experiments on Wheat by Professor Percival), and 

 to the South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye (Experiments on Hops 

 by Mr. E. S. Salmon).] 



3. Grants for the provision of technical advice and for the investigation of 



local problems. 



4. Grants for the provision of research scholarships. 



Grants in aid of research institutes are payable only to certain institutions 

 approved by the Development Commissioners. These institutions are required, 

 as a condition of grant, to specialise in particular branches of agricultural 

 science. Now the papers containing an account of the research work carried out 

 at these institutes are published in various periodicals, but the majority appear 

 in The. Journal of A(/ricuItural Science and 'I'he Journiil of the Board of Agri- 

 culture. It must be borne in mind that both these Journals are concerned with 

 all matters agricultural, and hence breeding results naturally constitute a very 

 small proportion of the whole. 



In addition to the Journal, leaflets are also issued by the Board from time 

 to time containing information on practical agriculture, to which the same remark 

 applies. 



Horticulture. — A Horticultural Branch of the Board of Agriculture has lately 

 been formed, which issues an annual report. This report deals for the most 

 part only with plant diseases and pests. 



The Royal Horticultural Society has its gardens and its own Journal. The 

 Society has a large membership,'-and articles on Mendelian work appearing in 

 the Journal would have a wide distribution, and should be of great use. But 

 the Journal is intended to deal with all branches of the subject of horticulture, 

 and, therefore, as in the case of the Journal of the Board of Agriculture, 

 naturally only a small fraction of the contents relates to scientific breeding 

 experiments. The Society's Shows might afford opportunity to some extent of 

 giving ocular demonstration of results of breeding work, and this idea was, she 

 believed, under consideration. Possibly arrangements might be made for 

 exhibitions of this kind as a regular feature of the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Shows. 



Pure Science. — Facilities under this head for bringing breeders and growers 

 into contact might be regarded as almost negligible, since the original papers in 

 which the scientific results are recorded, usually appearing in various scientific 

 journals devoted lo the subject of heredity, were as a rule of little use to the 

 practical man not acquainted with the terminology, or with the eai'lier work in 

 the subject. 



After this brief .statement of the position Miss Saunders brought forward 

 the following pi-oposals for discussion. These proposals were not to be regarded 

 as resolutions in final form. They embodied various suggestions made by those 

 with whom slie had had an opportunity of discussing the matter, and were 

 intended merely to serve as a basis of discussion : — 



S^lggestion.<i iiroposed for Discussion. 



1. That a memorial should be sent to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 calling attention to the urgent need of bringing into closer contact the 

 scientific breeder and those commercially interested in the results of 

 breeding work, and urging upon the Board the advisability, as a pre- 

 liminary step, of calling the trades concerned together, with the object 

 of inducing them to organise Research Departments. These Research 

 Departments would constitute the natural channels for the interchange 

 of information between those concerned with the industrial application 

 of the discoveries in genetics and the scientific workers. 



The formation, by those engaged in the study of genetics, of a body (or 

 centre) — a Genetics Association, with (if possible) some easily, accessible head- 

 quarters—might do much to facilitate intercourse of this kind and to promulgate 

 information on the subject of genetics generally. Such a body might make 

 arrangements, e.g., for 



(rt) Periodic visits, by those interested, to different exf.erimental 

 stations and growing centres. 



