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Cereals  .... 
Rice  meals 
Bean  meals 
Dried  grains  . 
Superphosphates 
Dissolved  bones 
Compound  manures  . 
Raw  and  steamed  bones  . 
Peruvian  guanos 
Fish,  meat,  and  bone  guanos 
Basic  slag 
Nitrate  of  soda 
Sulphate  of  ammonia 
Potash  salts 
Shoddy 
Refuse  manures 
Lime  .... 
Soot  .... 
Roots  .... 
Hops  .... 
Waters  .... 
Soils  . . . . , 
Milk,  cream,  and  butter  . 
Miscellaneous  . 
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Total  ....  480 
J.  Augustus  Voelcker. 
ANNUAL  REPORT  FOR  1910  OF  THE 
BOTANIST. 
In  the  following  Report  a short  account  is  given  of  the  work 
carried  out  between  January  1 and  November  30, 1910,  on  behalf 
of  the  Members  of  the  Society  by  the  Botanist. 
Some  360  inquiries  in  all  were  received.  The  majority  of 
these  were  concerned  with  the  purity  and  germinating  capacity 
of  agricultural  seeds.  The  remainder  ranged  over  a wide  area 
but  provided  little  of  general  interest.  They  are  not  sufficiently 
numerous  to  afford  any  accurate  survey  of  the  general  condition 
of  any  one  branch  of  the  subject  during  tbe  year  1910.  Conse- 
quently no  attempt  has  been  made  to  summarise  the  results  of 
the  inquiries  in  any  considerable  detail,  and  I have  had  to 
content  myself  with  a brief  description  of  the  work  carried  out 
in  the  more  important  sections,  adding  occasionally  notes  which 
may  be  of  service  to  Members. 
It  is  satisfactory  to  be  able  to  report,  that  after  so  bad  a 
seed-harvest  as  that  of  1909,  the  majority  of  the  seed  samples 
