XXll 
Monthly  Council,  June  24,  1909. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  on  May  5,  1909,  were 
taken  as  read  and  approved. 
Mr.  James  Archibald  Morrison,  of  Berwick  House,  Hindon,  Salisbury,  was 
elected  a Governor  of  the  Society,  and  116  duly  nominated  candidates  were 
admitted  into  the  Society  as  Members. 
On  the  motion  of  Mr.  Adeane,  seconded  by  Mr.  Staijyfoeth,  it  was 
resolved  : “That  the  Secretary  be  empowered  to  issue  to  any  duly  nominated 
candidate  for  membership  of  the  Society,  on  receipt  of  the  annual  subscription, 
a badge  admitting  the  candidate  to  the  same  privileges  as  a Member  during 
the  forthcoming  Show  at  Gloucester  ; the  formal  election  of  such  candidate  to 
be  considered  by  the  Council  at  their  next  ordinary  meeting.” 
The  President  introduced  Mr.  J.  L.  Luddington,  of  Littleport,  Ely,  the 
newly-elected  Member  of  the  Council  for  the  Division  of  Cambridgeshire,  and 
expressed  a hope  that  the  Council  might  have  the  advantage  of  his  services 
for  many  years  to  come. 
Mr.  Bowbn-Jonks  said  that  the  Chemical  Committee  had  no  report  to 
present  that  day,  but  he  would  like  to  state  that  the  seventh  International 
Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry  had  just  concluded  its  sittings.  The  meetings 
had  been  highly  successful,  and  had  been  attended  by  upwards  of  3,000 
delegates  from  different  parts  of  the  Empire  (including  India)  and  from  many 
foreign  countries.  The  Royal  Agi’icultural  Society  of  England  had  been 
represented  by  himself,  and  Dr.  Voelcker,  their  consulting  chemist,  had  been 
the  acting  president  of  the  section  devoted  to  agricultural  chemistry.  This 
latter  section  had  held  seven  sittings,  at  which  matters  of  much  interest  to 
agriculturists  and  to  scientific  workers  in  agriculture  had  been  discussed,  and 
views  with  workers  abroad  exchanged.  Among  these  were  such  questions  as 
the  use  of  the  new  nitrogenous  fertilisers  produced  from  the  atmosphere,  the 
inoculation  of  leguminous  and  other  crops,  the  supply  of  phosphates  in  the 
future,  the  future  supply  of  potash  salts,  the  losses  in  making  of  farmyard 
manure,  hard  and  soft  wheat,  and  their  adaptability  for  milling  and  baking 
purposes,  the  constituents  of  feeding  stuffs  and  their  respective  values,  the 
changes  produced  in  soils  by  the  action  of  manures,  acidity  and  alkalinity  in 
soils,  the  effect  of  environment  on  crop-growing,  &c.  In  the  discussions  that 
followed  on  the  reading  of  the  different  papers,  the  experiences  derived  from 
the  Society’s  investigations  at  the  Woburn  Experimental  Farm  formed  a 
prominent  feature. 
On  the  motion  of  Mr.  Bowen-Jones,  it  was  decided  that  the  Report  of  the 
Consulting  Chemist — copies  of  which  had  been  circulated  to  the  Council 
before  the  meeting — be  approved,  and  that  it  be  issued  to  all  Members  of  the 
Society  for  their  private  information. 
The  Secretary  reported  that  a letter  had  been  received  from  the  Agri- 
cultural Commissioner  of  the  Hungarian  Government,  stating  that  a national 
show  and  market  of  cattle  and  animals  for  breeding  purposes  would  be  held  in 
Budapest  from  June  6 to  10,  in  connection  with  the  Fourth  International 
Dairy  Congress  in  that  city. 
Other  business  having  been  transacted,  the  Council  adjourned  until  the 
week  of  the  forthcoming  Show  at  Gloucester. 
THURSDAY,  JUNE  24,  1909. 
At  a Monthly  Council,  held  in  the  Large  Tent  in  the  Gloucester  Showyard, 
the  Earl  of  Jersey,  G.C.B.  (President),  in  the  Chair  : — 
Present : — Trustees. — Mr.  J.  Bowen-Jones,  Mr.  F.  S.  W.  Cornwallis,  Lord 
Middleton,  Sir  John  Thorold,  Bart. 
Vice-Presidents. — Mr.  C.  R.  W.  Adeane,  Mr.  Percy  Crutchley,  the  Right 
Hon.  Ailwyn  E.  Fellowes,  Sir  Gilbert  Greenall,  Bart.,  the  Earl  of  Northbrook, 
the  Hon.  Cecil  T.  Parker. 
