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With these considerations in view, it 

 has been arranged that grants should 

 be made for research in the following 

 groups of subjects :— 



1. Plant Physiology. 



2. Plant Pathology and Mycology. 



3. Plant Breeding. 



4. Fruit Growing, including the practi- 



cal treatment of plant diseases. 



5. Plant Nutritiou and soil Problems. 



6. Animal Nutrition. 



7. Animal Breeding. 



8. Animal Pathology. 



9. Dairying. 



10. Agricultural Zoology. 



11. Economics of Agriculture. 



Special Grants for Research. 



A sum not exceeding £3,000 per annum 

 will be available tor assistance in respect 

 of special investigations for which pro- 

 vision is not otherwise made. 



Grants from this fund will be made 

 on the recommendation of the Board's 

 Advisory Committee on Agricultural 

 Science, who will consider not only 

 whether the proposed investigation is 

 desirable in itself, but whether it could 

 not be better carried out at one of the 

 special research institutions referred to 

 above. The grants will be made from 

 year to year, and will be for one year 

 only in each case, 



Scholarships. 



In order to secure the services of a 

 number of carefully trained men for 

 work in connexion with the scheme, 

 the Board propose in each of the years 

 1911, 1912, and 1913 to offer 12 scholar- 

 ships, of the value of £150 per annum, 

 tenable for three years. It is proposed 

 that candidates for scholarships should 

 be selected by a special committee re- 

 presenting the institutions under whom 

 the selected candidates will subse- 

 quently work. The award of 12 scholar- 

 ships will be conditional on a sufficient 

 number of thoroughly suitable candi- 

 dates presenting themselves. 



Local Advice and Investigations. 



Grants will also be made to certain 

 Universities, University Colleges, and 

 Agricultural Colleges in England and 

 Wales for the purpose of enabling them 

 to supply scientific advice to farmers on 

 important technical questions and to 

 carry out investigations into problems 

 of local interest, which can be more 

 conveniently studied on the spot than 

 at one of the research institutions. 



By means of these grants it is hoped 

 to provide an expert staff possessing 

 both scientific and practical qualific- 

 ations, who will devote themselves to 

 solving difficult local problems, and in 

 other ways endeavour to secure the 

 application of science to practice. 



GUMS, RESINS, SAPS AND EXUDATIONS. 



SOME STRAY" NOTES ON SAPIUM. 

 By Edgar Beckett. 



(Prom the Journal of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural and Commercial Society of 

 British Guiana, Vol. 1, No. 2, 

 July, 1911.) 

 There is not much doubt that there is 

 yet a great amount of information to be 

 gained concerning this genus of our 

 indigenous lubber plants. 



That there are large numbers of 

 Sapiums to be found growing in our 

 forests, at scattered intervals, is well 

 known, that this tree is also to be found 

 growing vigorously along the Coast 

 lands is also a fact, but that we know 

 the nomenclature correctly is probably 

 open to doubt, whilst as to the beha- 

 viour of the tree under tapping oper- 

 ations and of its merits as compared with 

 Hevea brasiliensis we may quote from 

 Prof. Harrison's and Mr. Stockdale's 

 interesting article in the October issue, 



1910, of the Journal of the Board of 

 Agriculture. " Without therefore pledg- 

 ing ourselves to any definite state- 

 ment," they write, "in regard to the 

 relative merits of the Para rubber tree 

 and the indigenous Sapium, we are 

 inclined to the opinion that, whereas 

 the value of Hevea brasiliensis as a 

 rubber-producing tree under cultivation 

 is known in many countries and under 

 different conditions, that of Sapium 

 Jenmani has yet to be definitely ascer- 

 tained ; and whereas the growth of Para 

 rubber has been satisfactory in a very 

 large number of different localities in 

 the Colony, cultivators would be wise to 

 choose this variety and to consider 

 Sapium as still being in the experi- 

 mental stage— worthy of trial only on a 

 small scale until more definite inform- 

 ation is available in regard to the 

 yields of rubber that can be obtained 

 from it." In the April number for this 

 year, the Journal contains the follow- 

 ing : " Mr. Stockdale reported on the 

 experimental tappings of Sapium Jen* 



