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  <dc:title>Minutes, meeting of the Grain Pests Committee</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Present: W A Herdman, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society,  in the chair;  Professor A Dendy;  Dr Gertrude Dixon;  Mr J H Durrant;  Dr J S Edkins;  Mr J C F Fryer;  Mr W B Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society;  Professotr R Newstead

Describes committee business, including the appointment of W A Herdman as Deputy Chairman; report of a circular letter sent to overseas committees; correspondence from the US Department of Agriculture on the application of heat to stored grain; a resolution to prepare a memo on the protective treatment of stored grain for submission to the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies; a statement on the committee's work prepared by W A Herdman; an interim report from H M Duvall on the 'Acarids of stored grain during the months of May and June' and one from J S Edkins on the 'Effects of ozone on moths'; a letter from J Stanley Gardiner stating the research services of M A Husain are available. p12-14.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>5 July 1917</dc:date>
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