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Afternoon Session. 



The Delegates assembled at 2.30 p.m. in the University School 

 of Agriculture, where they were joined by Delegates to the First 

 International Seed Trade Conference which was being held in 

 London concurrently with the Fourth International Seed Testing 

 Congress. 



Sir Lawrence Weaver said that, as Chairman of the Fourth 

 International Seed Testing Congress, it gave him great pleasure 

 to welcome Mr. E. G. BeU (President of the Agricultural Seed 

 Trade Association of the United Kingdom and also President of the 

 First International Seed Trade Conference) and the other visitors 

 from the Seed Trade Conference. He, and those associated with 

 him, realised that there must necessarily be the closest possible 

 contact between those concerned with seed testing and the great 

 seed trade, and he welcomed, therefore, the opportunity of a joint 

 meeting, believing that they would derive much benefit from 

 listening to the papers to be read by Dr. Volkart and Mr. Edgar 

 Brown. 



Mr. Dorph-Petersen, as Chairman of the European Seed 

 Testing Association, also welcomed the visitors very heartily. 

 He intimated that aU those engaged in seed testing were dehghted 

 to have this opportunity of meeting the seed dealers and em- 

 phasised the great significance of a reciprocal understanding 

 between the seed trade and those institutions testing seeds. It 

 was probable that at their meeting on the following day the Seed 

 Testing Congress would approve the formation of an International 

 Seed Testing Association. He expressed the hope that the seed 

 traders would form a similar international association and that the 

 two associations would co-operate. 



Mr. E. 0. Bell on behaK of the Seed Trade Conference and his 

 own Association (The Seed Trade Association of the United 

 Kingdom) thanked Sir Lawrence Weaver and Mr. Dorph-Petersen 

 very much for their welcoming words. It gave him and his 

 colleagues great pleasure to meet the Delegates to the Seed 

 TestiQg Congress and he was sure they would glean information 

 which would be of importance to their trade. 



Dr. Volkart th&n read the following report : — ■ 



Report on the Determination of Provenance of Clover and 

 Grass Seeds. 



By 



Db. a. Volkabt, Zurich. 



The Third International Seed Testing Congress at Copenhagen asked 

 me to make proposals for a uniform enquiry into the different origins of 

 commercial .clover and grass seeds, and to inaugurate joint investigations 

 into this Subject. The proposals for theise investigations were submitted 

 to the representatives of the different countries taking part in the 

 Congress, in the spring of 1922. I had proposed at Copenhagen, that in 



