Minutes, meeting of the Grain Pests War Committee Present: Professor W A Herdman in the Chair; Professor A dendy; Mr J H Durrant; Dr J S Edkins; Mr J C F Fryer; Mr W B Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor R Newstead Lists committee business, including the change of status to a 'war' committee; a resolution that the War Committee ask the Local Government Board to appoint A W J McFadden; approval of Dendy and Newstead's memos; resolution to publish Dendy's paper on weevils as the first in a series of Grain Pest Committee reports; resolution to recomend that Prof Dendy be granted an assistant; resolution to renew Durrant's assistant's grant for his work on 'enumerating species of pests'. p23-4. 24 January 1918