(Quarterly Heport of the Chemical Committee, June, 1892. 353 
Nevertheless, there are a few points in respect of which the 
Chemical Committee consider it might be desirable for a general 
understanding to be arrived at — if necessary, by further legislation. 
1. It would be an advantage alike to agriculturists, the trade, 
and to agricultural chemists if a definite agreement were arrived at 
as to what meaning is to be conveyed when certain names are 
applied to feeding-stuffs and manures, the nature and composition 
of which it is quite possible to define. Thus, it would be well that 
certain articles in common use on the farm, such as linseed-cake, 
bone-meal, nitrate of soda, &c., should be defined. 
2. When a vendor sells any such articles, he should be compelled 
to give the purchaser an invoice describing the article by a definite 
name, the meaning of which is clearly understood by the trade and 
by agricultural chemists in agreement. 
3. As, however, there are other materials, which it is not possible 
to define clearly — e.y., substances such as barley-manure, turnip- 
manure, mixed feeding-cake, calf-meal, &c. — these should be sold 
according to analysis, and the analysis, or rather the guaranteed 
portion of it, should be stated on the invoice. The Chemical Com- 
mittee does not regard it as necessary that the manufacturer or 
vendor should be compelled to state of what sucii materials are 
composed, provided the analysis be given. 
4. It should be a necessary stipulation in the case of sale of all 
feeding-stuffs for cattle that they be understood to be “ fit for feed- 
ing purposes.” 
5. It would be only fair to the vendor of any material that, when 
a purchaser intends to take a sample of it for the purpose of having 
it analysed, notice should be given to the vendor, so that he might 
attend either personally or through a representative, and see the 
sample drawn, or take it and others conjointly with the purchaser. 
May 31, 1892. R. A. Warren, 
Chairman, 
REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE 
ON THE RESULTS OF THE SENIOR 
EXAMINATION, 1892 . 
The Committee have to report that twenty-eight candidates 
entered, and twenty actually competed, at the Society’s Senior 
Examinations, which took place from the 10th to the 14th of May 
last, and that of these twenty competitors ten have satisfied the 
Examiners. 
2. The following eight candidates, placed in order of merit, have 
gained first-class certificates with the Life Membership of the 
