| 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. |