142 Proceedings. 
Mr. G. pun, we in 1919 was granted £100, through че БҮЛ sion Institute 
of Canterbury, f research on fruit-diseases, repor rted n 27th mber that 
comparative investigation of et pets mental plots has prov dis die Mes бает аз 
voc y be of great benefit in controlling brown-rot of t ach and other 
t 
is investigating the fungus ugs оле the buds to drop and the laterals to die 
The microtome ordered came to hand this im but, as Mr. Brittin had alread 
ther arrangements, Ae dern Kirk took it over. „М Вг n delivered a lecture before 
the Motueka Fruitgrowers' Association this season, and a condensed report of it w 
published in the Nelson Me m nd in the Noronha issue of am New Zealand F е. 
Credit nce of grant, £94 
Professor Burbidge, us in 1921 was granted £100, through the Auckland Institute, 
for a research the intensity of long-wave signals from Europe, rted on the 
que ae 
to cover рер 
Dr. Kathleen Curtis, who in 1920 was granted £100, through the Тенор, bs 
for research in perinde mycology, reported on the 16th December that k durin 
the gee yee had been confined to black-spot of the apple a nd pear No bist that 
might utilized from the кл point of view have been obtained, and it is 
ruris grouse that nex this work will be p eth Barg and e on brown- 
rot of meor rue $ ied. "due whole of E grant has been expended i 
vans, who in 1919 was granted a further £200, S the 
Philosophical Institute of of Canterbury, for an duvietiua tion ot New Zealand brown coals, 
reported on the 15th December that ex ante cae I work ha а been carried out by 
"a: three assistants, as s follo ows: (a) Ultim SATA and gorii] of sulphur 
in twenty-nine coals from the pan Чаа: ^) lea ка оци ents on three typical 
coals, with special reference to the change in ash; (c) examination of * дел fein from 
сечы о Обаро, & c. The Краса. ordered in 1921 had come to han 
red асаа yh jw r 
A general acount of the work done is реша presented to the Australian Association for 
the Advancement of Science, M Wellington, and. алдан are being таайе 10 
of porcelain, ed on е 5th January t n а paper em Dearing r^ pud of f di 
research was published r the October, 1922, n the hr of the American 
Institute of . Electrical Engineers in the 41st volume, on page 711. (This publication 18 
porarily available to members of the Board of Governors s this meeting.) That 
the work has been of in es outside of New Zealand as well as of importance within 
е m an extract from a letter received by Mr. Bi íi from Mr. F. W. e 
on, of the Adelaide Electric Supply Compan an ref d an arrangemen 
ting insulators for Adelaide, Mr. W dle cocaine te number 
rtain and on 
progressed beyond that stage, and become of a commercial character. 
Mr. George Gray, who in 1920 was granted £50, thr iy te pes Philosophical wer 
of Canterbury, for an investigation on the waters of Canterbury, repor rted o the 
s been done during the year ; 4 
and, as vs ere seemed to be little probability of its being en done di the тст) grant 
Mr а. п 5118 — surrende ugh 
the oe eror. to whom, with Mr. Cornes, in 1919, was granted £50, thro ee 
xà nsti for a research on the growt th of kauri, reported on the 12t 
December that during the year little progress had been made, Mr. Cornes had accepted 
