166 Proceedings. 
Research Work.—At the last annual meeting the following resolution 
was passed: “That the Research Grant Committee be asked to make a 
comprehensive report on the state of all researches undertaken with the 
Institute’s financial aid during the last ten years.’’ The following report 
has therefore been compiled, and a property list containing the books and 
apparatus, &c., bought out of ‘the Research Grant Fund is appended. 
REPORT ON THE RESEARCH WORK OF THE New ZEALAND IwsTITUTE, May, 1923. 
Dr c dams was granted £ as Chairman of the Astronomical 
езен ы; th W ellington. Philosophical азе, for the guess of he 
The ^ ole ritish Astronomical Association purchased for him meter 
pits ‘ich e, e edis pee юа objective prism e last i aide tw 
in 1922, when Dr Adams applied for an additional hipt of £20 for кузге}. x cost 
of camera. This application was granted on 12th June, 1923. 
Dr. C. E. Adams in 1919 was granted НӨ аге nable him to undertake Niere 
observations in Cen fal Otago, and such other localities as decided on by the Astro- 
nomical Section, to test the seeing and other conditions of s i": for an observatory. 
In 1921 the Internal Affairs Department stated that, as the e xpenses in connection wit 
the testing of sites was being undertaken by the Department, hes grant would not be 
requir Dr. Adams had expended £26 5s. 5d. on instruments, and h ked permission 
to retain these for another year, which permission was granted. The pex of the 
grant was surrender 
Mr. L Birks in 1916 as granted £10 for carrying out experiments in electrical 
prevention of frosts in cinta. In 1919 Mr. Birks was transferred from Christchurch 
to К эке шел ‚ and he refunded the grant, of which nothing had been expended. 
. G. Brittin i £100 fo i i 
- 1 uit iseases. 
work consisted in special pruning and spraying, and noting the effects. He had 
secured the loan of a microtome, and was able to pr ы ран sections of the later stages 
of some of the diseases. Dr. Curtis, of Cawthron Institu ute. was assisting in the 
examination of the [rue SAM die-ba ick. The results of the experimental E in 
р 
reached. Тһе ар so = ноу e been slight, and atn Vies ree: ave " gladly 
loaned their trees for the r ih. Mr. Brittin gave before the Fruit- 
DE ers’ Association, and Pun was published in the Nelson Mail on the 7th October, 
hs owe r P. W. gu in "d was monet £100 for a wert on the intensity 
e signals from Euro The apparatus, which cost over £100, arriv ved 
à commenceme nt being made. He applied for an additio nal £25 for uec out- 
а t expenses. This application was granted оп и, bou June 
particularly in the direction of prone de Observations and experiments in rega 
to the diseases affecting the flax, improved methods of йы тыш Аш &e. Early in 1919 
nnings (then Mrs. Dr. McCallum) e. to leave for England; the work had to 
Je nd 
Bonds pistes and the unexpended portion of the pal ame £39— was 
efunde 
. M. logy. 
In бойу їпд {һе еа noe stages in the penetration of the peer of the black-spot 
ing ri i : culiariti ted 
n 
of stone-fruits. The whole of the grant has been expended in books, the apparatus 
required in the research being available in the Gibson Institute 
Mr. W. C. Davies in 1921 wa fo resea on soil- 
Коне a. The work included i investigation of the bacteria of Miei typical p of 
: e Nelson ана, particularly of the loams of {һе Moutere and Port Hills. Work 
as also been commenced on the soils of the Nelson tomato-houses, with the object 
