792 Annual Report for 1892 of the Consulting Chemist. 
I append the list of analyses made in the Laboratory during the 
past year. 
List of Analyses made for Members of the Society , from December 1, 
1891, to November 30, 1892. 
Linseed-cakes ........ 238 
Undecorticated cotton-cakes 76 
Decorticated cotton-cakes ...... 42 
Compound feeding-cakes and meals .... 62 
Bice-meals 5 
Cereals 9 
Dried grains 6 
Silage and hay 7 
Butter, milk, and cream 14 
Waters 137 
Superphosphates 131 
Dissolved hones and compound artificial manures . . 105 
Bones and hone-meals . 92 
Peruvian guano 10 
Fish guano 34 
Shoddy 15 
Soot . 6 
Basic slag 36 
Sulphate of ammonia 19 
Nitrate of soda 42 
Potash salts 13 
Lime 15 
Kefuse materials 45 
Soils 33 
Miscellaneous 19 
1,211 
Analyses in connection with the Annual Country') j-q 
Meeting J ^ 
Analyses in connection with the Woburn experiments 'I 80 
and those of Local Agricultural Societies . . f 
Total 1,320 
December 6, 1892. J. Augustus Voelcker. 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1892 OF THE 
CONSULTING BOTANIST. 
Numerous instances of injury to plants by parasitic fungi have been 
investigated during the past year. 
Several cases of canker of larch have been dealt with, and 
practical hints given for treatment as recommended by my .son, 
Mr. J. B. Carruthers, in his paper in the Journal (A^ol. III., 3rd 
series, 1891, p. 299). The method of cutting off the cankered sur- 
