Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 1998
This group, which is concerned with the applications of mathematics to agricultural science, was formed in 1970 and has since met at approximately yearly intervals in London for one-day meetings. The thirtieth meeting of the group, chaired by G. J. S. Ross of the Institute of Arable Crops Research, Rothamsted, was held in the Wellcome Meeting Room at the Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London on Friday, 3 April 1998, when the following papers were read.