Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 242
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ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT Consulting Zoologist to the Society—A. E. CAMERON, M.A., D.Sc., Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology, University of Edinburgh, 10 George Square, Edinburgh. REPORTS ON THE ANIMAL ENEMIES OF CROP PLANTS AND LIVE STOCK (INCLUDING POULTRY). The Consulting Zoologist is prepared to send to any Member of the Society a Report on damage to, or diseases of, plants and animals due to animal agency (Insects, Mites, Worms, Snails, Slugs, Birds, and the Smaller Mammals), and will advise Members regarding ingects or allied animals which, in any stage of their development, in est—— (a) Farm crops. 1‘ (d) Fruit and fruit trees. (b) Stored grain and foodstuffs. ' (2) Forest trees and stored timber. (0) Garden and greenhouse plants. l (f) Live stock (including poultry). Any Member consulting Dr Cameron should give him full par- ticulars of the damage or disease upon which his advice is desired. In addition, there should be sent to him specimens of the injured plants, or the injured parts of plants, &c., as well as specimens of the insects or animals believed to be the cause of the injury. Specimens should be sent in tin or wooden boxes, or in quills, in order to prevent injury in transmission. The Directors have fixed the fee payable by Members to Dr Cameron at 2s. 6d. for each case upon which he is consulted : this fee should be sent to him along with the application for information. Letters and parcels (carriage or postage paid) should be addressed to A. 3. Cameron, Esq., M.A., D.Sc., Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology, University of Edinburgh, 10 George Square, Edinburgh. 63 PREMIUMS OFFERED 1940 GROUP I.-—-REPORTS. GENERAL REGULATIONS. 1. It is to be distinctly understood that the Society is not responsible for the views, statements, or opinions of any of the writers whose papers are published in the ‘ Transactions.’ 2. All reports must be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only; they must specify the number and subject of the Premium for which they are in competition; they must bear a distinguishing motto, and be accompanied by a sealed letter, similarly marked, containing the name and address of the reporter—initials must not be used. 3. No sealed letter, unless belonging to a report found entitled to the Premium offered, or a portion of it, will be opened without the author’s consent. 4. Reports for which a Premium, or a portion of a Premium, has been awarded, become the property of the Society, and cannot be published in whole or in part, or circulated in any manner, without the consent of the Directors. All other papers will be returned to the authors if applied for within twelve months. 5. The Society is not bound to award the whole or any part of a Premium. 6.1All reports must be of a practical character, containing the results of the writer’s own observation or experiment, and the special conditions attached to each Premium must be strictly fulfilled. General essays, and papers compiled from books, will not be rewarded or accepted. Weights and measurements must be indicated by the imperial standards. 7. The Directors, before or after awarding a Premium, shall have power to require the writer of any report to verify the statements made in it. 8. The decisions of the Board of Directors are final and conclusive as to all matters relating to Premiums, whether for Reports or at General or District Shows; and it shall not be competent to raise any question or appeal touching such decisions before any other tribunal. 45,-.” 5'5“ V, , Hf" 31-1! ,1; " IA'G'EP-z it} W . .. . ¥d he; ...-. ~..__._v.._. w A .3... c “enemas-1., A“ a ,.......... «a "‘1'- 2’s" |
| Title | Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 242 |
