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to consider the elaboration of the proposals made by Dr. Volkart. 

 When definite agreement had been reached regarding these 

 proposals, the delegates could then go back to their Governments 

 to ascertain whether or not they were prepared to become 

 members. The subscription to the Association would probably 

 be so modest that it was unlikely that any Government would 

 refuse to join. 



Professor Johannsen then submitted to the Congress the names 

 of the following Delegates to serve on a Provisional Committee, 

 whose duty it should be to consider Dr. Volkart's draft 

 Constitution and the foregoing suggestions, and to submit the 

 results of their deliberations to the full Congress on Thursday 

 afternoon. 



Provisional Committee. — Professor Mohammed Showky Bakir 

 Effendi, Professor Bussard, Mr. Clark, Mr. Devoto, 

 Mr. Dorph-Petersen, Professor Munn, Professor Voigt, 

 Dr. Volkart, Sir Lawrence Weaver. 



The Congress unanimously approved Professor Johannsen's 

 proposal. 



At the Chairman's invitation, Miss Yeo then addressed the 

 Congress regarding the International Agricultural Institute, Rome. 

 She stated that in view of the recent collaboration between the 

 Institute and the European Seed Testing Association, and of the 

 fact that the Institute had undertaken to reserve at least 100 pages 

 per annum in its Quarterly Review for reports on seed testing work, 

 the Institute had sent to the Congress copies of the latest mono- 

 graphs and reviews which it had published. It was hoped more 

 and more to centralise all information bearing on agricultural 

 subjects at the Institute and to use the Review as a common 

 organ for the Association. 



Mr. Anderson then read the following paper : — 

 Uniformity in Seed Testing Reports. 



BY 



T. ANDERSON. 

 Director, Seed Testing Station, Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 



The need for a tmiform method of expressing results of analyses, of 

 seed samples which would be vahd for international trade, and which 

 would, at the same time, indicate the relative intrinsic value of any parcel 

 of seed to the cultivator more truly than does the present conventional 

 form of report, has doubtless presented itself at some time or another to 

 all those engaged in the profession of Seed Testing. 



The late Dr. Bruijning, at the International Seed Testing Congrese at 



Copenhagen in 1921, made a proposal to meet this need by applying an 



arbitrary factor or factors to the ascertained percentage of injurious 



ingredients in a sample for the purpose of arriving at a figure by which 



(P. X G.) 

 the ascertained percentage of pure germinating seed ' ^ should be 



reduced to make it represent the intrinsic or use value. 



