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is content with the knowledge that her sacrifice and her 

 confidence have contributed to the profit and to the happiness 

 of all her people. 



I will add only one word in conclusion. All this splendid 

 work has been, and is being, done by the energy, the self- 

 sacrificing zeal, of what I must be allowed to call the best 

 Colonial service which the world has ever seen. Some people 

 assess the value of their national greatness by wealth or by 

 conquest. I would sooner trust the credit of my country to 

 the character and attainments of the devoted band of men in 

 the service who carry the name and the fame of our country 

 to the uttermost corners of the habitable globe. 



Dr. OBERTO MANETTI (Italian Delegate) : Mr. Chairman I 

 am sorry I am unable to express my thanks to you. Sir, in 

 English for your kind references to my country, and I trust 

 that you will allow me to do so in Italian. 



Sono commosso per le parole veramente gentili che V. E. 

 ha avuto per il mio Paese e per gli attestati di stima che Ella 

 ha voluto dare agli studiosi Italiani che hanno parpecipato a 

 questa riunione imponente. 



Al mio ritorno in Patria, sara mia cura informare il Governo 

 Italiano ed i colleghi, che mi hanno inviato a Londra a 

 rappresentarli, delle speciali cortesie che ringhilterra ha voluto 

 tributare aH'Italia, per il che io fin da ora anticipo i piu 

 sentiti e profondi ringraziamenti. 



[Translation.] I am deeply affected, Sir, by the very kind 

 words in which you have spoken of my country and by the 

 expression of the esteem in which you hold the Italian con- 

 tributions to this Congress. 



On my return to my native land it will be my pleasant duty 

 to inform the Italian Government and those of my colleagues 

 who commissioned me to represent them in London of the 

 great courtesy which England has shown to Italy, for which 

 I now wish to anticipate them in expressing our deepest and 

 most hearty thanks. 



The following papers were then read : 



THE PRODUCTION OF FINE SEA ISLAND COTTON IN THE 

 WEST INDIES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE 

 ST. VINCENT INDUSTRY. 



By W. N. SANDS, F.L.S., 

 Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



At least 130 years ago a fine cotton, presumably Sea Island, 

 was grown in the West Indies. Seed was sent to the United 



