SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— L, M. 631 



the hospital, the university. Some account is given of the activities of the Child 

 Guidance Council recently established in London, and of the proposal to set up in 

 London a cliild guidance clinic as a demonstration clinic financed for a period of three 

 years by the Commonwealth Fund of New York. 



(c) Miss M. Drummond. — The Scope of the Child Guidance Clinic. 



The Child Guidance Clinic may bo regarded as having both length and breadth. 

 Its length is to be measured in terms of the ages of those who attend it ; its breadth 

 in terms of their complaints, symptoms, abilities, and disabilities. 



The aim of the clinic is to readjust children who in one way or another are out of 

 harmony with their environment. Such maladjustments take many forms- — stealing, 

 lying, sexual aberrancies, educational disabilities, bad temper, are a few of the most 

 important. Malnutrition maj' also be regarded as lack of adjustment to environment. 

 This is the most common form of protest in infancy, but is best dealt with by the 

 medical man who alters the environment. The work of the Child Guidance CUnic 

 begins when the mental element becomes more accessible, that is, round about the age 

 of two. It may continue until the age of fourteen or even sixteen, but it is clear that 

 the more the need for readjustment is realised in the early years, the rarer will become 

 the older cases. 



The methods of the clinic are psychological methods. The Director of the Clinic 

 must, therefore, be a psychologist. It may be an advantage if he has medical qualifica- 

 tions as well ; in any case he must obviously work in close association with a medical 

 man. 



Special Demonstration of Educational Broadcasting. 



SECTION M.-AGRICULTURE. 



(For reference to the publication elsewhere of communications entered in the 

 following list of transactions, see p. 688.) 



Thursday, September 6. 



Presidential Address by Dr. J. S. Gordon, C.B.E., on The Live Stock 

 Industry and its Development. (See p. 213.) 



Discussion (Sir Robert Greig ; Prof. J. A. S. Watson ; Mr. A. W. 

 MoNTGOMERiE ; Mr. John Speir ; Prof. R. G. White). 



Afternoon. 



Mr. A. Crichton. — Supplementary Feeding on Pastures for Sheep and 

 Cattle. 



A survey of the pastures on rough grazings during the last two or three years 

 has sho-wn that on pastures which have never been cultivated or treated with fertilisers 

 the chemical composition varies in different districts, and in many cases the amounts 

 of protein and some of the essential minerals present are, on the basis of the energy 

 or starch value, very low. It is suggested that these substances which are deficient 

 are limiting factors for the utiUsation of the pastures by the animal, and that in some 

 cases where the deficiencies are extreme they are the direct cause of malnutrition. 



Acting on this hy^iothesis feeding experiments have been carried out with cattle 

 and sheep in Kenya Colony and in Scotland. 



The data from these feeding tests show that in some cases the feeding of the 

 appropriate mineral salts on deficient pastures has resulted in increased growth in 

 yoimg animals, and greater wool or milk production. Some of the figures suggest 

 that the feeding has had an influence in reducing the amount of disease. 



