Annual Report for 1893 of the Consulting Chemist. 813 
List of Analyses made for Members of the Society from December 1, 
1892, to November 30, 1893. 
Linseed cakes 
. 199 
Undecorticated cotton cakes . . . 
. 73 
Decorticated cotton cakes 
. 39 
Compound feeding cakes and meals 
. 78 
Rice meals 
. 15 
Cereals 
. 11 
Dried grains ........ 
9 
Silage and hay 
5 
Butter, milk, and cream 
. 10 
W aters ........ 
. 228 
Superphosphates 
. 139 
Dissolved hones and compound artificial manures . 
. 119 
Bones and bone-meals 
. 120 
Peruvian guano 
. 14 
Fish guano 
. 28 
Shoddy 
. 23 
Soot 
4 
Basic slag 
. 53 
Sulphate of ammonia 
. 12 
Nitrate of soda 
. 35 
Potash salts 
9 
Lime 
G 
Refuse materials 
. 41 
Soils 
. 78 
Miscellaneous 
. 15 
1,303 
Analyses in connection with the Annuel Country' 
Meeting J 
53 
Analyses in connection with the Woburn experiments ' 
84 
and other agricultural investigations . 
r 
Total 
. 1,500 
J. Augustus 
VOELCKER 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893 OF THE 
CONSULTING BOTANIST. 
There has been during the past year an increase of applications 
from the Members of the Society. The total number amounts 
to 325. 
The pasture grass-seeds were on the whole satisfactory, both as 
regards purity and germination. The rye-grass had the largest 
proportion of weeds present. Samples of perennial rye-grass had 
10 and 12 per cent, of weeds, and a sample of Italian rye-grass 
had 11 per cent. Several samples of cocksfoot contained smaller 
quantities of weeds. Ergot was found in both tall fescue and 
