Reports of Committees. 
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de Banja/nuni), which had over- 
powered the plants and prevented 
the spores of the finger-and-toe disease 
from developing. Any further ex- 
periments, therefore, must necessarily 
be postponed until next season. The 
Committee proposed that Mr. 
Carruthers should be requested to 
repeat his experiments next year, 
when it was hoped that more satis- 
factory results would be obtained. 
The Committee recommended that 
the following prizes be offered at the 
Darlmgton Meeting for whole fruit 
jams and bottled fruits in two classes, 
instead of three, as at Cambridge : — 
1st 2nd 3rd 
£ £ £ 
(A) Collection of Whole 
Fruit Jams . . .321 
(B) Collection of Bottled 
Fruits . . . .321 
They had revised the regulations 
under which these prizes should be 
offered, and recommended their adop- 
tion as follows : — 
The exhibits must-have been pre- 
pared exclusively from fruit grown in 
the United Kingdom in the year 181)4. 
Not less than four nor more than 
six kinds of fruit must be shown in 
each exhibit. Each receptacle must 
contain not less than 1 lb. 
The exhibits must be contained in 
glass jars, bottles, or other trans- 
parent receptacles, which must, be 
labelled with the name of the fruit 
which they contain. No trade mark 
or trade label will be permitted on 
the receptacle. 
No exhibitor shall make more than 
one entry in the same class. 
The exhibitor is to certify that the 
jams or bottled fruits exhibited are 
a fair sample of his own make of the 
season of 1894. 
A letter had been read from the Royal 
Meteorological Society, recalling the 
fact that twenty years ago Mr. White- 
head and Mr. Carruthers were ap- 
pointed by the Council, as representa- 
tives of the Royal Agricul tural Society, 
upon a Committee for the organisa- 
tion of observations of natural phe- 
nomena. The results of these observa- 
tions had appeared from time to time 
in the Journal of the Meteorological 
Society, and it was now suggested 
that the whole subject should be re- 
viewed by a fresh conference, and 
that a decision should be come to 
as to the continuance or cessation of 
the work, and as to the part which 
other societies could and should take 
in it. The Committee recommended 
that the Secretary be instructed to 
reply that in the view of the Council 
it was desirable that the information 
which had been collected on this sub- 
ject during the last twenty years 
should be systematised and made 
available for general information, and 
that they would be willing to co- 
operate in any new conference that 
might be convened with this purpose. 
The Committee recommended that 
their Chairman, Mr. Whitehead, and 
the Society’s Zoologist, Mr. Warburton, 
be nominated as the Society’s repre- 
sentatives upon such conference. 
The Consulting Botanist had referred 
to the practice of farmers in buying 
grass seeds by bulk or weight, and 
showed to the Committee samples of 
different seeds, demonstrating the 
relative quantity of such seeds neces- 
sary to produce a certain number of 
plants, and their relative cost. The 
Committee suggested that a short 
article with appropriate illustrations 
on the value of seeds in relation to 
the plants produced, as opposed to 
their weight and bulk, would make a 
very useful note in the Society's 
Journal (see page 797). 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker moved, 
and Mr. Sanday seconded, an amend- 
ment to omit the recommendation as 
to the Prizes for Jams and Bottled 
Fruits, which gave rise to a discus- 
sion, in which Mr. Whitehead, Earl 
Cathcart, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. 
Bowen-Jones, Lord Moreton, Mr. 
Dent, and Sir Jacob Wilson took 
part. Eventually the amendment 
was withdrawn, and the report of the 
Committee was adopted, on the under- 
standing that the question of the con- 
tinuance of these prizes should be 
reconsidered in connection with the 
Meeting of 1896. 
Veterinary. 
Mr. Ashworth (Chairman) re- 
ported that the leaflet on Anthrax 
which had been prepared and issued 
immediately after the last meeting of 
