AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 
Hobart, Tasmania, 
JANUARY 8, 1892. 
Report of Committee No. 6. 
THE FERTILISATION OF THE FIG IN THE 
AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES. 
Members of Committee. — Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, Professor Haswell, 
Mr. Thomas Kirk, Baron von Mueller, Mr. Skuse, Professor Tate, 
Professor Thomas, Mr. C. French (Secretary). 
The Caprification of the Fig. 
Owing to a difficulty of getting Members together in 
order to draw up a progress report countenanced from all 
sides, it seems best that at the next time the Chairman and 
Secretary draw up early a statement of their own and circu- 
late such amongst the Members, so as to enable them to give 
their views on the subject. The Chairman of the Caprifica- 
tion Committee had, at the meeting in Christchurch, given a 
lengthy verbal explanation of the present state of the question 
allotted to our investigation, and since then not much infor- 
mation of a reliable nature has been forthcoming from any 
particular country, except that in California measures had 
been taken for acquiring there living plants of the Capri Fig 
by sending a special emissary to Smyrna with a view of 
introducing the Blastopliaga grossorum into California, and 
that this course had also for Australia been recommended at 
the New Zealand meeting, and, further, that Mr. C. French, 
the Government Entomologist of Victoria, had initiated some 
similar measures for Victoria by opening up a correspondence 
with the British Consul in Smyrna. 
The Committee really thinks that similar united efforts 
should be made from all the Australian colonies if the results 
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