Annual Meeting, 1924. 161 
of identifying the protozoa and studying the effects of several methods of partial 
paseos of the soil-life. А etii: has been fitted up, and experimental work 
n plate and pot culture has carried out. The whole of the grant has been 
MM; in apparatus and b 
Professor T. H. Eas teried 3 in 1918-19 was granted £250 for an "Ease rere 
the wax- content of New Zealand brown coals. A commencement with the work was 
elayed owing to the war ы үт illness of n Mehmet iod In 192] a 
paper Барам ng. m ereit of this investigation was r d t the nay Congress in 
Palmerston North this paper the location of mineral oils was given, and allusion 
was — to the onis to supply mineral-oil by distillation oil тот at Orepuki. 
Th hur-content of the southern shales id Stated to a serious objection. 
‘Rane in of the properties of iure and Kotuku oil was oti Professor Easter- 
field stated згн in bis "ae. ion the ad of new wells in Taranaki pro at present 
greater success than development in any other area, but urged that as a matter of 
og nines ected ое prospecting уы bores сеа be carried out іп a number 
e еен was атса. in the salaries of assistants, я the unexpended 
) rch has been 
Professor T. H. Eas — eld in 1922 еб гече ranted £200 for а research on orchard- 
fruits. A preli Me account of this research was rec Siar given to the Fruitgrowe 
Associati tion, who h сы; contributed ix the eost of the work; the account was 
published in = Nelson Evenirg Mail. Е 
. P. Evans in 1918 was nted £200, in 1920 a further £200, and in 
Professo gran 
1921 a further £9 00, totalling £600, for a research on New Zealand brown coals. 
work covered investigation into the distillates of the various coals as regards fuels for 
internal-combustion engines and primary chemicals for organic work in gene 
neral. 
Canterbury College Council assisted in supplying part salary of an assistant, the 
remainder being paid from i grant. A large amount of apparatus а p pres 
including a ball mill, electric furna с. ; analyses and experiments 
1 nnection with the various coals, and the feil have been g A general 
unt of the research was presented at the last meeting "ot the Australasia 
ace n Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and will be published with the report ‘of that 
meeting. 
Professor C. Coleridge Farr in 1919 was granted £100, in 1920 an additional £30, 
and in 1922 £60, fora oe n porcelain insulators. A _— À was с 
isfacto 
The 
than a that have hitherto bee | ublished.” The unexpended balance is £55 
Professor Farr and Mr Philpott, it, his. assistant, consider that the work has now become 
of such a practical nature, and so routine in practice, that any further e Ix 
upon it should be borne by the Public Works Department is € come m t 
beyond that stage p become of a commercial аба 
T Oleri 
sulphur. Wor k has been progressing, and the expenditure so far has been only very 
slight, = aids or Farr hopes shortly to publish a paper showing the results of his 
цен 
tus, 
nterb re a delay in fitting up a la ore and o pparatus, 
ut 130 samples of ra has кт collected from Lincoln distriet and from m the Sel 
and Wai then found that his health prevented him from 
Mr. 
carrying on the asie do indi he surrendered the whole of the grant. orl ach 
e Artesian Wells Committee, with Dr. Hilgendorf as convener, in Es. ot pee 
granted £100 for a research into o the sources of supply, constancy of flo ek i wells 
artesian wells of the Christchurch area. Recorders for reading the c = the 
have been insta lled. Observations have been co ompleted in Christehurc ТР нь 
mores have been removed to Lincoln. The work during Dr. Hilgendorf's veis m 
ve as delaye ed, but it is now eee pushed forward. The expenditure incurre 
chiefly in shelters for the == iping, 
r. H. Hill in 1917 <r pee for investigations of the е re ы» 
тање artesian water Shen Se persone in certain areas. Mr. Hill expe 
