368 Time/in. 



Colony. Capetown until recently was further by time from Durban 

 than Kingston is from Georgetown. A week is a small matter in the 

 West Indies. They are at present over-governed. 



I have jotted down thest^ few hasty remarks at the close of a very 

 busy day as they represent what I probably would have expressed after 

 the lecture had I been present when called upon and do not think I 

 should withhold them as my opinion was invited. I went to the 

 meeting, however, as a learner and a student and after eight years' study 

 of West Indian problems have not learned enough to dogmatize about 

 any of them. I think the counsel of St. Augustine realizable: " In great 

 matters unity ; in smaller matters diversity ; in all things brotherly love 

 (caritas "). — I am, Sir. yours faithfully, 



JOSEPH J. NUNAN. 



February 11, 1914 



AX AMENDE. 



Berbice, 



British Guiana, 



May, 1914. 



Dear Sir, — With reference to my last article published in the 

 September number of "Timehri," ;, 'Fan Palms and Pond Flowers," 

 Professor Harrison, Director Department Science and Agriculture, draws 

 my attention to an injustice to the Head Gardener of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Mr. J. F. Waby, F.L.S. 



It seems that the Berbicians owe these pretty Gardens to Mr. 

 Waby s well-known skill and taste, and not to the late George Samuel 

 Jenman. 



Unwitting as the oversight has been, I am now the more pleased to 

 be able to give Mr. Waby the credit he deserves for having fashioned 

 this " beauty spot." There is some consolation, however, in the fact 

 that Mr. Waby's abilities are so well-known that I feel that the omission, 

 regrettable as it is. can do him little or no harm, while the work of the 

 late Mr. Jenman can well afford to be shorn of the credit which must be 

 given to the man who, with tender care and skill, raised these Gardens 

 for the pleasure and interest of the people of Berbice. I should be 

 much obliged if you would kindly publish the above, so that Mr. Waby 

 in his retirement may feel that justice has been done to this branch of 

 the many useful works he has performed during some 40 years' service 

 in the West Indies — for which service he has lately been decorated with 

 the Imperial Service Order. — I am, etc., 



EDGAR BECKETT. 



