Miscellaneous- 



[April, 1910. 



Kernels of Scypho cephalium Kombo, 

 Warts, do p. 32. 



Geranium oil. Imp. Inst. Bull. 6, 

 , 1908, p 295. 



New oil seeds from S. Nigeria. Trin. 



Bull., Oct. 1908, p. 48. 

 De eultuur der oliegrassen en de 



bereiding van hunne aetkerische 



olien. Cultuurgids 10, I., p. 718. 

 lets over olie-fabricates do. p. 751. 

 Oananga odorata. Bull. Eeonomique. 



Jan.-Feb. 1909, p. 62. 



Extraction of oil from seeds. Queens!. 

 Agr. Jl. XXII. 5, p. 262, May 1909. 



Die olindustrie in India und Ceylon. 

 Tropenpfl. Sept. 1909, p. 407. 



Oils and Seeds. Imp. Inst. Report 



1908. •' T. A." Nov., p. 399. 

 Possibilities of Cotton seed oil. Ind. 



Agric. Sept. 1909. " T.A." Dec. 



p. 488. 



Preservation of mixtures of Sesa- 

 miiia and groundnut oil, Ind. 

 Trade J 1., Sept. 1909. "T.A."Dec. 

 p. 489. 



Le palmier a huile. Adam. Paris 1910. 



CEYLON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Minutes op Meeting Held on 6th 

 April, 1910. 



Minutes of the 51st Meeting of the 

 Board of Agriculture, held at the Council 

 Chamber, on Wednesday the 6th April, 

 1910, at 12 noon. 



The Hon'bleSir Hugh Clifford, k.c.m.g., 

 Colonial Secretary, presided. There were 

 also present:— The Hon'ble Messrs. H. L. 

 Crawford, c.m.g., and A. Kanagasabai, 

 Drs. J. C. Willis, H. M. Fernando, 

 Messrs. P. Arunachalam, W. A. de Silva, 

 G. W. Sturgess, C. J. C, Mee, Francis L. 

 Daniel, J. D. Vanderstraaten, and C. 

 Drieberg (Secretary). 



The Minutes of the meeting held cn 

 7th February, 1910, were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Progress Report. No. 49 was adopted. 



Statements of Expenditure for Feb- 

 ruary and March were laid on the table. 



The motion re resolution adopted by the 

 Bee Committee recommending the pur- 

 chase of a machine for making founda- 

 tion comb for A pis Indica bees was held 

 over owing to the absence of Mr. E. E. 

 Green in India. 



Reports on the Tobacco Experiment at 

 Maha-Iluppalama for February and 

 March, by the Superintendent, were 

 read by the Secretary. 



Dr. Willis read his paper entitled 

 "The Position of the Village Farmer." 

 Mr. W. A. de Silva offered some remarks 

 on the paper. 



The Secretary read " A Note on the 

 Basket and Mat-making Industry in 

 Ceylon." After an inspection of mats 

 and materials dealt with in the Note, 

 the meeting terminated. 



Mr. J. D. Vanderstraaten exhibited an 

 interesting specimen of Travancore 

 plantains of abnormal size raised by him 

 at Negombo. 



THE ADMINISTRATION OF AGRI- 

 CULTURAL EDUCATION. 



(From Nature, Vol. 81, No. 2084, 

 Thursday, October 7, 1909.) 



A memorandum has just been issued 

 setting out the arrangements which 

 have been made between the Board of 

 Agriculture and the Board of Edu- 

 cation in regard to agricultural edu- 

 cation. It has been known for some 

 time that a certain amount of contro- 

 versy existed between the two depart- 

 ments on account of the anomaly arising 

 from the fact that the Board of Agri- 

 culture inspected and gave grants to 

 the various agricultural colleges and 

 other institutions for higher agricul- 

 tural education, whereas agricultural in- 

 struction in secondary and primary 

 schools, like all other forms of education, 

 was controlled by the Board of Edu- 

 cation. On the one hand it was felt that 

 agricultural education could not thus be 

 dissociated from the general system of 

 the country ; on the other hand, there 

 was the dauber that so special, and in 

 many respects so weakly supported, a 

 subject would never receive the atten- 

 tion it deserved without the fostering 

 care of its own special department. The 

 situation became more critical as ic 

 appeared that the Board of Agriculture, 

 however anxious to retain its connec- 

 tion with the colleges, was unable to 

 obtain the funds either to make ade- 

 quate grants to existing institutions or 

 to promote the creation of fresh colleges 

 where they were needed. The two 

 Boards appear now to have arrived at 

 a compromise which still leaves the 

 higher educational institutions under 

 the charge of the Board of Agriculture, 

 but also secures an interchange of views 

 by the creation of an interdepartmental 

 committee. The Board of Agriculture 

 is to take charge of advanced schools of 

 agriculture serving, as a rule, more than 

 one local education authority's area, and 

 taking students of an age of seventeen 

 and upwards ; under its charge also will 



