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  <dc:title>Minutes, meeting of the Grain Pests Committee</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Present:  W A Herdman, Deputy Chairman, in the Chair;  Profesor A Dendy;  Mr J Hartley Durrant;  Mr J C F Fryer;  Professor Stanley Gardiner;  Mr W B Hardy

Lists committee business, including a memo on damage done to grain and flour by insects, prepared by A Dendy; a letter from an entomologist in Canada on research into stored grain; reports of investigations with infested flour; resolutions to be kept informed of A E Humphries' experiments with sifting flour; that a statement on the insects infecting grain be drawn up; that new facts from members should be presented as papers for publication in the Proceedings; a report from the Australian grain pest committee on their work, and related correspondence; a report on Newstead and Duvall's work on mites and acarids in stored grain; correspondence with the Imperial Institute, Cyprus, on grain pests there; a report from A Dendy on breeing experiments; a resolution to continue J H Durrant's  'counting experiments'; a letter from the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies enclosing a proposal for an invention by Clifton West to sterilise grain with steam, and the committee's opinion that this was a possible, but impractical solution. p15-22.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>11 October 1917</dc:date>
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