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been very numerous, not only from the United Kingdom, but 
from all parts of the world. 
With regard to the Botanical Section, the enquiries addressed 
to the Consulting Botanist, though important, have not been so 
numerous as in some previous years. The greater part of these 
were in reference to the quality of grass seeds for permanent 
pasture. It is most satisfactory to note that the general result 
shows that the improvement in these seeds reported last year- 
has been maintained. The presence of ergot has been detected 
in several localities in which there has been abortion among 
cows. 
At the request of the Council, Professor Robertson, Principal 
of the Royal Veterinary College, and one of his assistants, spent 
some weeks in the laboratory of M. Pasteur, in order to study 
his method of inoculation for certain diseases of animals of 
the farm. Upon their return the Council made a grant to 
enable Professor Robertson to carry out experiments with the 
virus of anthrax and quarter-ill, and he is now ready to carry 
out protective inoculation for quarter-ill in cattle or sheep 
upon a limited number of animals within a reasonable distance 
of London. 
The Council have also made a grant to Professor Brown for 
further experiments on the lung-worm in cattle and sheep, in 
continuation of those which were carried on by the late Dr. 
Cobbold, and the results of which are published in the current 
number of the ' Journal.' 
In both these cases a delay of several months was experienced 
in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining licenses under the 
provisions of the Vivisection Act. > 
Colonel Picton Tubervill's Annual Prize of 25Z. was last year 
offered for the best Essay on the Agriculture of Pembrokeshire. 
There were seven competing essays, and the Judges awarded 
the Prize to Mr. William Barrow Wall, of Pembroke, highly 
commending the essay by Mr. William Richards, of Hasguard^ 
Hall, Little Haven, South Wales, and commending that by 
Mr. Joseph Darby, of Stoke Newington. 
The examinations for the Society's Junior Scholarships were 
held at the several schools on November 9th and 10th. Forty- 
two candidates were entered from six schools, and there was one 
