Record

RefNoCMB/40/1/6
LevelItem
TitleMinutes, meeting of the Grain Pests Committee
Date3 May 1917
DescriptionPresent: W A Herdman, Foreign Secretary fo the Royal Society in the chair: Professor A Dendy; Mr J Hartley Durrant; Mr J C F Fryer; Mr W B HARdy; Professor R Newstead; Mr Oswald Robinson

Lists committee business -- appointment of Gertrude C Dixon to the committee; letters from the Royal Society of Canada, the Australian Advisory Council of Science and Industry, and the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, Russia; a resolution to purchase an 'ozone apparatus'; reports on the work of J H Durrant, H M Duvall and J S Edkins, and resolutions that these researchers should continue their work; decision to ask the Canadian Committee if the mites found in Canadian and American grain in Liverpool are to be found in stored grain in Canada; decision to ask the US Department of Agriculture for the services of L O Howard in investigating stored grain; a report to overseas committees; motions to co-opt E Paul of the Liverpool Grain Storage Co and J S Edkins to the Committee.
p10-11.
Extent2pp
FormatPrinted
AccessStatusOpen
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