Report of Society's Meetings. 407 



Maximum possible. Obtained. 

 Purity and absence of alien matter 25 25 



Distillation 25 22 



Aroma and taste 25 23 



Appearance and condition 25 23 



M. Carreiro- Gold Nuggets ; The variety and quality of the placer 



gold nuggets of British Guiana; from the fine grained placer savings 



to nuggets weighing two ounces and over. 



Exhibition Committee— Gold Ores and Minerals, mixed; especially 



interesting in the faft that it is an illustration of the nature of the whole 



auriferous region of British Guiana, an area of 60,000 square miles. 

 Pin. Versailles — Cofiee, (Liberian); Clean large beans of good 



flavour. 



The Hon N. D. Davisgave noticeof rnotionasfoUows: — 



'■ That the sum of Two Hundred Dollars be placed at the disposal of 

 the Agricultural Committee of this Society, to be used by that Committee 

 in experimenting as to the introdu£lion into this colony of families 

 of Agricultural labourers from the neighbouring British Colonies. ' 



The Secretary read the following coriinunication from 

 the Government : — 



From the Secretary of State to the Governor of British Guiana. 

 British Guiana, No. 179. Downing Street, 



1 8th August, 1894. 

 Sir,— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your des- 

 patches Nos. 201 and 202 of the nth ult , transmitting copies of the 

 Report of the Representation of British Guiana at Chicago Exhibition 

 by Mr. J. J. Quelch, Commissioner for the Colony, and a copy of a 

 Resolution passed by the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society 

 with regard to the services of Mr. Quelch in his capacity of Commis- 

 sioner. 



2. I have read the Report with interest, and I have received with 

 much satisfaction the testimony of yourself and of the Society above- 

 mentioned to the valuable services of Mr. Quelch as representative of 

 British Guiana, and to the able and satisfactory manner in which he has 

 carried out the important duties entrusted to him. 



I have, &c., 



(Sgd) RIPON. 

 Governor Sir C. C. Lees, K.C.M.G., 

 &c., &c, &c. 



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