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_Dr. Adams, who in 1919 was granted £150 pei the beber rie хениз eun 
Society for an investigation in astronomical and geophysical si ported o 
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in different stations in ge in charge of the Astronomical Branch of the p 
Institute, for the purpose of Prae a years 
No results had so far Бей published, but it is hoped to have a report comprising 
the етай 8 p ‚в year at least at fes station ready for the American Eclipse 
gations. 
Mr. G. Brittin, who in 1919 was granted £100, loci | г Чечсе Institute 
of Canterbury, for a research on fruit-diseases, reported on he 12th January, 1922, 
e grower in whose orchard the experiments are made is doing the spraying free 
of charge, pee satisfied with the results of last season ’s work, r. Brittin has had 
no occasion to expend any of his grant, and the balance remains at £97, £17 being in 
ma of gran rantee. 
Charles Chilton, who in 1918 was granted £50, rp > Philosophical 
Жайы of ‘Canterbury; for an investigation of New Zealand greet cen ig able to 
comp E. this research owing to the absence of his assistant Edinburgh, and in 
accordance with a resolution of last annual meeting refunded the. eren balance 
Dr. Kathleen M. Curtis, who in 1920 was granted £100, шош the Nelson Institute 
for research in parasitic mycology, re rted on the 29th November that M M partial 
u 
She in before с poe ork to examine three m a of apple, one 
of pes and one of n ne. A portion of ia: grant, £21 3s., has been ramum 
in books, and ке Balances 78 17s., still in the hands of the rete will be spent 
in a similar per 
“Н. " Fasterfield, who in 1919 was granted £200, through the Wellington 
to the mineral oils, waxes, and resins of 
the year, and the investigation is appro roaching completion. During the year £45 Os. 6d 
nt been ge in the salary of a part-time assistant. The balance in hands of grantee 
is Pet 
rofessor W. P. Evans, who in 1921 was granted а further £200, through the 
P Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, for an С of New Zealand brown 
oals, reported on the 16th December, 1921, A A " Calorific Метт "чари 
ес had been checked where necessary, her dete made b 
Mr. Gilling; (Б) producer runs where apparently: abnormal had a "checked, and 
ed c resinous brown coals had been carri 
€ made. Mr. Gilling had 
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hich 
h that next year two gradua 
use seless ; but it is oped ap cod н i vis 
and sho nd d be ready early ne 
e balance to odi credit of this мы. 
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£24 tre of which is in the hands o wb "ES s through A Philo- 
sophical Institute of Canterbury, for a researc ә rted on the 
18th November that much work had been done gery g" year, 
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accumula i 
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t deta as the subject i is of the utmos 
only to the роза but to all users of mtg I on » papery ba an the pe 
e tests for porosity devised by the authors o pa 
Phi rt of the acceptance tests to 
hilpott, have been adopted by the a, M er irpo iat the opps 
be applied to insu nz into the Dominion, and it 
tion ot such can vil ped i a considerable and very desirable improvement in 
