Tin. Proceedings of the Society. 



» ceased Sugar Carte, and, in this case your Committee may Le 



> warranted in assuming that hitherto canes in state of total 



> decomposition have not been manipulated; and,besides,wbe« 



> in such a state, tbey would yield no crystalizable saccharine 

 » produce. 



« Whenever Sugar extracted from ihe cpne has been comple- 



> tely cryslalized it may be taken into consumption without 



> danger. 



( Besides,no fact has as yet occurred to estabh'sb, either her* 

 » or at Reunion Island, where the malady has reigned for seve- 

 » ral year?, that the Sugar exlracied from deseased canes has 



> operated prejudicially on the pubic health.* 



(Thursday, 11"' January 1849.^ 



W. Bo;er, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Present: — Messrs. L. Bouion, Secretary, G. Fropier, F. Dick, 

 V, SiDgery. 



The S3cre'ary laid before the Meeting a paper communica- 

 ted by Mr. J. Langlois, Planter of INorth Pamplemousses, upon 

 some Red Ganes manipulated by him on his Estate Triolet, and 

 from which he had obtained Sugar of excellent quality. 

 These remarks were accompanied by several samples of Sugar. 

 First, a sumple of the Sugar generally made at Triolet from 

 the common Yellow Cane, in order that it might be compar- 

 ed with Ihe other samples sent; one of Raw Sugar, and ihe 

 o'.her of Clairced Sugar, produced from Red Canes. The Meet- 

 ing resolved that the Secretary be requested to publish these 

 observation', and thai Ihe Samples of Sugar in question be 

 deposited Bt the Broker's Room, — the Society wishing iBufl to 

 manifest, by oil the means in its power, its sense of the utili« 

 ty of such inquiries as those made by Mr. Langlois. For 

 ai iha cummoo Yellow cane has tuffered chiefly from iba 



