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FIG. 3. VICTORIA REGIA IN BOTANICAL GARDEN 

 TRENCH, GEORGETOWN 



tants of Georgetown. I cannot refrain from mentioning 

 the names of the Governor, Sir Walter and Lady Egerton, 

 Hon. and Mrs. Cecil Clementi, Hon. J. J. Nunan, Prof. 

 Harrison, ^Ir. Hodway, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes and Mr. Cun- 

 ningham in Georgetown, Mr. Beckett in Berbice and Mr. 

 Frere and IMr. Withers in the vicinity of Kalacoon. To Mr. 

 Withers, through Robert Simpson, President of the Bartica 

 Agricultural Estates, we are indebted for Kalacoon itself, 

 on the Hills rubber estate, rent-free. For this and a score 

 of other kindnesses, words fail to express adequate apprecia- 

 tion. We prefer to feel that the gift is one to science, which 

 we, the benefiters, can repay only by the hardest, most sin- 

 cere work of investigation, of which we are capable. 



Kalacoon is a very large, two-storied house, built on a 

 rather abrupt hill, some two hundred feet above the Maza- 

 runi Ri^er. The laboratory room alone, on pillars fifteen 

 feet above the ground, was thirty by sixty feet with sixteen 

 windows. Two miles below the liouse the Mazaruni entered 



