1921.] 



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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 

 ON SEED TESTING AT COPENHAGEN. 



C. B. Saunders. 



Director of tJie Official Seed Testing Station. 



The following notes on the Third International Seed Testing 

 Conference are complementary to the account published in th(^ 

 July number of this Journal (p. 296). 



The two previous meetings of the Congress were held at 

 Hamburg (1906) and at Wageningen (1910). The third Con- 

 gress was the outcome of a suggestion that the jubilee of the 

 Danish Official Seed Testing Station would be a suitable occasion 

 for another conference. 



Invitations were sent by the Danish Government to the 

 different countries possessing Official Seed Testing Stations, with 

 the result that about thirty delegates were sent by the following 

 countries : — Belgium. Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, 

 Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, 

 Norway, Poland, Eumania, Servia, Sweden and Switzerland. 



The Congress was held under the chairmanship of Professor 

 Dr. W. Johannsen. who is the Chairman of the Danish State 

 Seed Testing Board. The success of the meetings was largely 

 due to Dr. Johannsen's personality and also to his ability to 

 give a precis of any paper in almost any European language. 



Papers were read during the week by the following gentlemtii. 

 and in most cases were followed by open discussion. 



Mr. F. F. Bmijning (Holland) : " General Views concernin<^ International 

 Unification of Methods of Seed Testing in the Interest of Trade, 

 more especially with regard to ttie Purity of Seeds." 

 Dr. Volkart (Switzerland) : "Determinations of the Provenance of Seeds.'' 

 Sir Lawrence Weaver : (a) "The Seeds Act, 1020;' 



{b) "The National Institute cf Agricultural 

 Botany." 



Mr. C. B. Saunders : " Methods of Seed Testing in the United Kingdom."' 

 Dr. Edgar Brown (America) (by proxy): ''Seed Testing in ilie Uniteil 

 States." 



Mr. G. H. Clark (Canada) : " Seed Control in Canada." 



Prof. Dr. Voigt (Germany) : " Investigations on the GriMiiiiation of 



Grass, Clover, and other Small Grained Seeds." 

 Mr. L. Kommers (Germany) (by proxy) : ''Analysis of tlie Sotd nf the 



Beet Family." 



Mr. J. Widen (Sweden) : " Investigations on the Content of Water and mh 

 the Germination of Cereals.'' 



