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beorgo, Hanover Square, had been 
considered; but the Committee did 
not recommend any action thereon at 
present. 
Journal. 
Earl Cathcart (Chairman) re- 
ported that the arrangements for the 
next number of tlie Journal had 
been discussed, and directions given 
thereon. Applications from the 
Boyal Meteorological Society and 
Professor Simonds for permission 
to reprint articles from the Journal 
were granted under the usual condi- 
tions. A letter had been read from 
the Meteorological Office as to the 
results of the Hay Harvest Forecasts 
in 18'J0, and the summary of these re- 
sults had been ordered to be published 
in the next number of the Journal. 
Chemical. 
Mr. Pell (in the absence of Vis- 
count Emlyn, Chairman) presented 
the recommendations of this Com- 
mittee as to correspondence arising 
in the Chemical Department. The 
Phoenix Oil Mills Co., Limited, of 
Liverpool, had expressed in a 
letter enclosing an advance copy of 
their circular their intention of sell- 
ing linseed cake in future on the 
form of contract recommended by 
the Society. Satisfaction vras ex- 
pressed at this step taken in accord- 
ance with the Society's suggestion to 
agriculturists. Dr. Voelcker had 
mentioned to the Committee a case 
in which unsound decorticated cotton- 
seed-meal was believed to have 
caused the death of twenty sheep. 
He had also brought to the notice of 
the Committee an instance of a so- 
called vine manure being supplied to 
a member of the Society at a price of 
11. per ton, which proved on analysis 
to be little more than ground- up 
flints and sulphate of lime. 
On the motion of Mr. Pell, Mr. 
E. W. Stanyforth was added to the 
Committee. 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) pre- 
sented a report from Miss Ormerod, 
■which the Committee recommended 
should be published with the pro- 
ceedings of Council (seepage x). A 
letter had been read from the Board of 
Agriculture, asking whether the Society 
was possessed of results of any ex- 
periments conducted in this country 
for the purpose of testing the efficacy 
of applications of sulphate of copper 
as a. remedy against potato disease, 
and, if not, whether it would be 
feasible for the Society to undertake 
a series of specific experiments of 
this nature in four or five distinctive 
and typical parts of England, during 
the summer of 1891, and, if necessary, 
in succeeding seasons. It had been 
resolved to recommend that the 
answer of the Council should be that 
the Society considered such experi- 
ments feasible, and that it would be 
willing to organise and conduct them 
for the Board of Agriculture, it the 
Board should think it desirable. If 
this reply were approved by the 
Council, the Committee further re- 
commended that their Chairman (Mr. 
Whitehead), Lord Moreton, Mr. De 
Laune, Mr. Carruthers, and Dr. 
Voelcker (with power to add to their 
number) be appointed a Sub-Com- 
miitee to draw up a scheme, and to 
make the necessary provision for the 
conduct of any experiments that 
might be arranged in conjunction 
with the Board of Agriculture. 
Mr. Whitehead, in moving the 
adoption of the report, said he thought 
he should briefly allude to the im- 
portant communication which had 
been received from the Board of 
Agriculture with regard to the 
conducting of experiments with sul- 
phate of copper for the prevention of 
the potato disease. He sincerely 
trusted that the Council would enier- 
tain the proposition made by the 
Board, and allow such experiments to 
be conducted by the Sub-Committee 
recommended b}' the Seeds and 
Plant Diseases Committee, in con- 
junction with the Board of Agri- 
culture. He ventured to think that 
this was one of the most important 
questions that had, recently at all 
events, been brought before that 
Council. It was a question of 
national concern. The Society had 
already instituted experiments in 
1872, with regard to the prevention 
of, or the discovery of a remedy for, 
this fell disease, which had ravaged 
their potato crops in this country 
now for nearly fifty years, without 
