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Monthly  Council,  June  1,  1904. 
Council.  The  Committee  suggested 
that  Sir  Walter  Gilbey’s  motion,  which 
appeared  on  the  agenda  paper  for 
November  4,  1S)03,  and  which  was 
temporarily  withdrawn  by  him,  would 
meet  the  case  if  Sir  Walter  should  be 
willing  again  to  give  notice  of  such  a 
motion. 
Sir  Walter  Gilbet  then  gave 
formal  notice  that  at  the  meeting  of 
the  Council  to  be  held  on  July  27 
he  woukl  move  the  adoption  of  the 
following  new  Bye-law  : — 
7a.  The  provisions  relating  to  Life 
Compositions  contained  in  Bye-laws  5, 
6,  6a,  and  7,  shall  not  apply  to  any  can- 
didate admitted  into  the  Society  after 
the  year  1904.  On  and  after  January  1, 
1905,  the  condition  of  admission  or 're- 
admission of  any  person  into  the  Society 
shall  be  the  signing  by  the  candidate  of 
an  undertaking  to  pay,  until  the  tei  mi- 
nation  of  the  year  in  which  he  shall 
withdraw  from  the  Society  by  notice  in 
writing  to  the  Secretary,  a minimum 
annual  subscription  of  1/.  to  the  Sociei  y’s 
funds. 
He  did  not  think  any  remarks  were 
needed  from  him  on  this  question, 
in  which  he  had  been  interested  for 
a number  of  years.  He  was  of  opinion 
that  if  this  motion  were  placed  upon 
the  agenda  paper  for  the  meeting 
of  the  Council  on  July  27  next,  a 
discussion  of  the  question  would  result 
in  advantage  to  the  Society. 
House. 
Sir  Nigel  Kingscote  (Chairman) 
reported  that  various  accounts  relating 
to  house  expenses  had  been  passed  and 
referred  to  the  Finance  Committee  for 
payment.  The  Committee  had  had  for 
some  time  under  their  consideration 
the  possibility  of  letting  certain  of 
the  rooms  in  the  Society’s  House,  and 
they  were  making  inquiries  with  this 
object. 
Journal. 
Sir  John  Thoeold  (Chairman)  re- 
ported the  issue  of  two  new  pamphlets 
on  Fruit  and  Vegetable  Farming, 
written  for  the  Society  by  Mr.  Charles 
Whitehead  and  Mr.  James  Ildale 
respectively,  and  published  by  Mr. 
Murray  at  1«.  each.  The  thanks  of 
the  Society  were  due  to  Mr.  Charles 
Whitehead  as  the  author  of  the 
pamphlet  on  Fruit  Farming.  Prelimi- 
nary consideration  had  been  given  to 
the  recommendations  of  the  Sub-com- 
mittee on  Finance,  as  relating  to  the 
Society’s  Journal ; and  the  possibility 
of  effecting  economies  in  various 
directions  had  been  discussed. 
Chemical  and  Woburn. 
Mr.  Reynard  reported  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  Committee  that 
formal  invitations  should  be  addressed 
to  the  President  of  the  Board  of 
Agi’iculture  and  the  members  of  the 
Lawes  Agricultural  Trust  Committee, 
to  join  in  the  annual  visit  of  inspection 
by  Members  of  Council  to  the  Society’s 
Woburn  Experimental  Station  on 
Wednesday,  July  6 next.  The 
Committee  had  had  under  their  con- 
sideration the  recommendations  of 
the  Sub-committee  on  Finance,  but, 
feeling  the  neces.sity  of  having  fuller 
information,  they  had  deferred  the 
matter  for  further  discussion.  The 
opportunity  of  the  annual  visit  of 
inspection  would  be  utilised  for  con- 
sidering whether  any  modification 
could  be  maile  in  the  arrangements 
for  the  field  and  feeding  experiments 
carried  on  at  the  farm,  and  for  the  pot- 
culture  experiments,  for  the  latter  of 
which  the  income  arising  from  the 
Hills’  Bequest  was  insufficient,  and 
needed  to  be  supplemented  by  the 
Society. 
The  Committee  had  considered  a 
Report  by  Dr.  Voelcker  of  a case  re- 
ferring to  a purchase  of  white  lead, 
and  they  recommended  the  publication 
of  this  Report  as  follows  : — 
Heiwrt  of  Consulting  Chemist. 
“WHITE  lead." 
“White  lead,”  as  used  for  paint  and 
for  estate  work  generally,  i.s  understood 
as  being  a basic  carbonate  of  lead,  and 
is  mostly  prepared  by  the  old,  or 
"Dutch,"  process. 
Of  late  years  other  processes  have 
been  introduced,  ~and  also  other  salts 
of  lead,  e.g.,  the  .sulphate,  have  been 
suggested  to  take  the  place  of  white 
lead.  Though  these  vary,  none  of  them 
possess  to  the  lull  the  “covering”  power 
which  genuine  wh  te  lead  has,  and 
they  are  sold  at  a lower  price. 
These  substitutes  ought  not,  however, 
to  be  described  as  “ white  lead,”  and  the 
following  case,  which  lately  occurred, 
may  be  useful  in  warning  land  and 
estate  agents  to  be  careful  as  to  what 
they  buy  when  asking  tor  "white  lead.” 
The  agent  of  a nobleman  in  the  home 
counties  .sent  to  Dr.  Voelcker  in  April 
last  a sample  of  what  had  been  guaran- 
teed as  "pure  white  lead,”  and  which 
was  to  be  used  for  estate  purposes.  On 
analysis,  it  was  found  not  to  be  white 
lead  as  properly  described,  buk  instead 
