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Report to the General Meeting. 
The Chemical Committee have lately visited the experimental 
farm at Woburn, and have reported that, as regards the experi- 
mental field of 25 acres, the various plots sown for the second 
year's experiments are in a satisfactory state of progress. Owing 
to the original condition of the Crawley Farm of 90 acres, 
which is not experimental but only auxiliary, some time must 
elapse before the land is thoroughly clean and the farm gene- 
rally has been brought into a condition which will accord with 
good farming. Mr. Lawes and Dr. Voelcker have submitted 
to the Chemical Committee the results of the first year's experi- 
ments, and this Report is at present under their consideration. 
A Sub-Committee has been appointed to confer with Mr. Lawes 
and Dr. Voelcker with the view of relieving them, if possible, 
of the responsibility of farming operations, in order that their 
undivided attention may be given to the various experiments in 
progress. 
The Council have had under their careful consideration the 
threatened importation of the Colorado Beetle, and have made 
certain suggestions to the Government with a view of reducing 
the danger to a minimum. They have also issued to each 
Member of the Society figures of the beetle in all its stages, and 
a statement of the means for its destruction, which have been 
found most efficacious in America. 
This new danger has again drawn the attention of the Council 
to the desirability of placing within the reach of Members of 
the Society competent advice on injuries caused by insects to 
farm-crops ; and they have arranged with Mr. Carruthers, the 
Consulting Botanist, to obtain such information and advice for 
the Members at a small rate. A copy of these additional privi- 
leges has been sent to each Member of the Society, together 
with instructions as to the methods of conveying information in 
regard to any injuries which their crops may suffer from insects 
or other causes. 
In consequence of the revelations made at the recent trials at 
the Mansion House, as to the adulteration, colouring, and 
killing of seeds, and of information laid before the Botanical 
Committee showing the great extent of this practice, the Council 
have authorised the Botanical Committee to publish the names 
of the persons who have sold to the Members of the Society 
seeds which have been determined by the Consulting Botanist 
to have been killed, coloured, or adulterated. The Council 
