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physical work, they were be eing o verco e, and i ЕК чн снна to 'be able toiii 
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the yeas gran a research on the todo d between radium-emanation and 
goitre, р оп tus ith January, 1924, that experimental work in connection with 
this investiga i re-exami 
of the apre remi of the same e is also being gone into. It is hoped to € 
the research further during the г. 80 эт ү only expenditure has been in 
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that certain of the works had been received from pe aris and the оаа were 
forwarded. The ing has not yet been eid: 
Mr. F. W. Foster, who during the year was en nted £25 for the work of collating 
fan manuscripts of m late Sir David Hutchins, reported on the 28th November that he 
He found that sections on certain im nt aspects of New Zealand forestry were 
missing, some time was spent in going through the library of the deceased, and 
eventually he found the missing sectio e other valuable manu 
nce was not previously suspec s arranging the matter under three m. 
1) Native forests and est-trees of mid d southern New Zealand; 
(2) exotic trees and edema (3) ealand а poliey. Мг ро: 
ew Z . Foster те 
that the work is proving far more protracted than he at first anticipated, but most of 
the ma id so far dealt with is of a valuable nature. N, o portion ot the grant has ye 
over 
. H. Ha milton was, eerie the Wellington Philosophical Society, granted £30 
for a fw on cave fauna of New Zealand. On the 5th December Mr. Hamilton 
reported that he iis Me t yet ааваас the research, but he intends visiting Waitomo 
Caves at an early date 
or Tnglis, who, npe the Otago Institute, was granted £25 for a research 
on the "mental oils of native plants, report rted on the 29th November that larger 
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who is working on a similar res earch, to avoid overlapping, a experiments 
be made upon (a) Dacrydium cupressium, (b) Dacrydium кыны 9 Aciphylla, 
Myoporum laetum 
Professor Jack, who, en the Otago Institute, was in 1917 granted £25 for 
research of the electric ieu о rem n, reported on the 20th Mere that fati 
investigations had bee lois out during the year, and the work was sent forward 
as a thesis. Professor жч is now ordering new Дона ey 80 that the work will be 
advanced further. 
Mr. Lomas 8, she. through e Wellington Philosophical Society, was d 
the year gran nted £25 for a research on the intelligence of school-children. "soporte on m 
the 20th December that he hoped to d the research early in the 
colm, who, ough the Otago Institute, in 191 gran 
425 for a research on the food value of Wem Zealan we , reported on the 22nd 
December that early in th r per on the c y of the New Zealand paua 
was finished and sent for publication in the Transactions ав аа 
Later in the year a в arch was begun in conjunction wit 
M.Sc., re of the fats and oils in the mutton This is HEN {о throw 
th 1 
light оп the digestibility of the oils derived from the fish c med by t 5 
MNA to тран sh results next year. Balance of the grant, which i is in hands of Institute, 
Professor Malcolm, who, through the Otago Institute, in 1918 was granted p 
for a research on the New Z Zealand plant poisons, reported on the 22nd December tha 
à considerable number of observations had been made as opportunity offered on tutin, 
pukateine, and ka ka, and these will be published whe pleted. me useful 
А ронд bea ing pong X subject have been ured, and Dr. Rawnsley has pre 
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€ poisons, including tutin, and it is hoped to publish these later. 
Balance of phe is £9 6s, 7d. рчс Уа tie holds. mon 
