FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SEED 

 TESTING CONGRESS. 



CAMBRIDGE, 7th-12th JULY, 1924. 



Monday, 7th July. 



Morning Session. 



On Monday, 7th July, 1924, at 11.30 a.m., the Fourth 

 International Seed Testing Congress assembled in the Council 

 Room of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, 

 C!ambridge. 



Sir Lawrence Weaver (Chairman of the Council of the 

 Institute), on behalf of the British Government, the Minister of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries and the Council of the Institute, 

 welcomed the Delegates, and expressed the great pleasure it 

 gave him to renew the very pleasing friendships which had 

 ■commenced in Copenhagen on the occasion of the 3rd Inter- 

 national Congress held in 1921. He expressed sorrow at the 

 death of Mr. Bruijning, referred in glowing terms to his services 

 in connection with seed testing, and welcomed Dr. Franck who 

 had succeeded Mr. Bruijning as Director of the State Seed 

 Testing Station at Wageningen. 



He thought that the venue of the Congress was appropriate, 

 and that there was some advantage in being able to carry out 

 their deliberations in the atmosphere of a University town. 

 The fact that parties of the Delegates were housed together 

 would enable them to exchange ideas and to discuss together 

 the business done at the meetings. 



Sir Lawrence Weaver then proceeded to read the names of the 

 Official Delegates, as foUows, and asked each Delegate to make 

 himself known to the Conference by rising : — 



Country. 



Name of Delegate. 



Particulars. 



Argentina 

 Belgium - 



Brazil 



'Canada 



Sr. Don Franco Devoto - 

 Mr. M. Douven 



Sr. Francisco de Assis 

 Iglesias (unable to 

 attend). 



Mr. G. H. Clark - 



Buenos Aires. 

 Director, Seed Testing 



tion, Louvain. 

 Rio de Janeiro. 



Sta- 



Chile 



Sr. Don Charles Videla 

 Lastra (unable to attend). 

 Czecho-Slovakia Dr. F. Pavlasek 



Dr. F. Chmelaf 



Seed Conimissioner, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Otta- 

 wa. 



Head of Chilean Ethnological 

 Laboratories, Santiago. 



Consul, Czecho-SIovak Re- 

 public, London. 



Director, Seed Testing Sta- 

 tion, Briinn. 



