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" The minute was not confirmed, a more definite resolution being 

 passed at the next meeting, held on March 7, stating 'that if the captain 

 of an East India ship, or other person, shall bring to England from any 

 part of the world, a plant of the true Bread-fruit tree in a thriving 

 vegetation, properly certified to be of the best sort of that fruit, such 

 person shall be entitled to receive the sum of one hundred pounds out of 

 the General fund of this Society.' 



"In the followiig year the Royal Society of Arts offered a prize to 

 whoever should succeed in transplanting the Bread-fruit from the East 

 to the West Indies. This, however, was evidently regarded as 

 inadequate, for at a meeting of West India planters and merchants held 

 at the London Tavern on February 18, 1777, at which Mr. Ellis himself 



The Bread-Fruit. 



This characteristic picture of the Bread-fruit ix reproduced from the icork of 

 John Ellis, Agent for Dominica, tchich was pid'lished in London in 1775. 



was present, it was resolved 'to enter into subscription and to 

 recommend it to all the gentlemen interested in the Sugar Colonies, for 

 •obtaining the ditferent species of the Bread-fruit tree in a more ample 



