Soil Erosion: The last Annual Meeting urged the Government to set a Royal Commission with scientifically competent personnel to deal with the urgent question of soil erosion. On the 12th September it was reported that the Government had set up a Committee to bring down a report. To this Committee two members of the Council, Professor E. R. Hudson and Dr. H. H. Allan were appointed. Annual Meeting Luncheon: Following a suggestion by Mr. Archey, the Standing Committee decided that in order to create a wider interest in the Society a luncheon to which members of the Council would each invite as guest a representative citizen would be held on the day of the Annual Meeting and the President would be asked to deliver part of his Presidential Address at the luncheon. Museum Management Committee: At a meetings of the Standing Committee on the 6th May, 1938, Mr. G. V. Hudson and Professor W. P. Evans were nominated to the Museum Management Committee in place of Mr. B. C. Aston, who had resigned, and the late Bishop Williams respectively. The Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum advised on the 2nd August that these nominations had been approved. Loder Cup: For the 1938 award of the Loder Cup the Standing Committee nominated the Forest and Bird Protection Society. The Loder Cup Committee awarded the Cup to Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Wellington. Monograph by Vavilov: The New Zealand Liaison Officer of the Imperial Agricultural Bureau wrote asking if the Society would be prepared to purchase a copy of a Monograph by Vavilov entitled “Theoretical Bases of Plant Breeding” if the Monograph was translated and published. It was decided to purchase for the Library the proposed translation at a sum not exceeding £5 for the complete set. On the motion of Professor Evans, seconded by Mr. Stead, the report of the Standing Committee was adopted. Arising Out of the Report: Scientific Reviews: Professor Evans read the report of the Committee to which this matter had been submitted. The report stated that the Committee had decided to interpret its instructions to refer to overseas publications, whether by New Zealand workers or by others, bearing on Science in New Zealand or on scientific problems of great interest to New Zealand, and it recommended the names of abstractors in Geology, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics. Mr. Archey expressed his doubts about scientific reviews being published in the Transactions. He did not consider they were necessary. Mr. Eliott pointed out that the cost of printing the Transactions was steadily increasing, and he would discourage printing matter which was of little value. Dr. Oliver considered that if abstracts were published they should be contained in the Proceedings, which should be published as a separate part. Professor Evans stated that, although the Committee had done as it had been requested, all the members of the Committee considered that abstracts would be of little value to readers of the Transactions. Dr. Allan spoke in favour of the proposal, which, he said, from a botanist's point of view, would be very useful. Mr. Hudson also supported the proposal. After some further discussion, and on the recommendation of Dr. Hilgendorf, it was moved by Mr. Archey, seconded by Mr. Stead, and carried: “That scientific reviews should not be published in the Transactions, but that the Editor of the Journal of Science and