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2. The provisional list of agenda for the Mycological Conference is as follows : — (1.) Activities and organization of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology. (2.) Publications of the Bureau. (3.) Co-ordination of investigations of fungicides. (4.) Plant-disease surveys in the British Empire. (5.) Standardization of popular and scientific nomenclature in plant pathology. ((5.) Encouragement of industrial enterprise in the investigation of plantdiseases. The Managing Committee of the Bureau have expressed a wish to be furnished with any suggestions which interested Governments may desire to make with regard to the provisional agenda, and I should be glad to receive as soon as possible any observations which your Ministers may wish to offer. I have, &c., J. H. THOMAS. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 13. New Zealand, No. 56. My Lord,— Downing Street, 19th March, 1924. With reference to Your Excellency's despatch, No. 173, of the 2nd July, 1923, on the subject of the International Seed-testing Congress to be held in this country in July next, I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that the Organizing Committee which has been appointed by the Minister of Agriculture is anxious to get into direct communication as soon as possible with the several delegates with regard to accommodation and other matters. I should be glad, therefore, if 1 could be informed at as early a date as possible whether the New Zealand Government intends to appoint delegates to attend the Congress, and, if so, to learn their names and addresses. 2. It would be convenient if a reply could be sent by telegraph. I have, &c., J. H. THOMAS. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 14. New Zealand, Dominions No. 153. My Lord, — Downing Street, 2nd April, 1924. I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Committee of University College, University of London, have inquired whether it would be possible for them to be supplied, for the College Law Library, with the volumes containing the collected laws of the self-governing Dominions. 2. The College has had a Chair of Constitutional Law since 1832, and at the time of the appointment of Professor J. H. Morgan, the present occupant of that chair, it was made a part of his duties to lecture on the constitutional laws of the British Empire. I understand that this part of the Professor's duties is being greatly strengthened, and that arrangements are being made which will constitute this aspect of his work as a permanent part of the duty of the Professor of Constitutional Law. 3. Should your Ministers be prepared to consider the Committee's request, the most convenient arrangement would appear to be that the volumes of statutes, both past and future, should be forwarded direct to the Librarian, University College, Gower Street, London W.C. I. I have, &c., J. H. THOMAS. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

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