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the second season with a view to the encouragement of poultry- 

 keeping for egg-production. The method of keeping heus on the 

 intensive system was explained, as well as the lines to be followed 

 in the breeding and selection of heavy-laying strains. Mr. Seth- 

 Smith called attention to the value of certain strains of ducks, 

 especially those known as " white runners," for egg-production. 



This Meeting closes the Session 1916-1917. The next Meeting 

 of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, 

 October 23rd, 1917, at half -past Five o'clock p.m. 



Communications intended for the Scientific Meetings should 

 be addressed to 



P. CHALMERS MITCHELL, 



Secretary, 

 Zoological Society of London, 

 Regent's Paek, London, N.W. 

 June \%th, 1917. 



