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paper and put the whole thing in a popular form. This 
I purpose doing instead of now infli€ting an inaugural ad- 
dress upon you. Another subjeét concerning which I 
might have spoken to you, is the general geology of 
the West Indian Archipelago, a subje& to which I have 
given some attention. Later in the year I purpose to 
prepare a paper on that subjeét also. With regard to 
other papers, I propose to ask Mr Quelch to deliver 
an address dealing with some zoological subje& closely 
conneéted with this colony, and to request Mr. Jenman to 
write for you a paper dealing with the influence of botani- 
cal research upon agricultural progress. These are some 
of the useful papers we may take up during this year. 
One of the most important points which will come 
before you will be the advent of the Sugar Commis- 
sioners. It is not necessary for this Society to take 
steps to arrange for the evidence to be offered to the 
Commissioners, as this has already been arranged by 
a large and representative committee of planters, en- 
gineers, &c., appointed by the Planters’ Association, 
which committee has already begun its labours... But it 
appears to me that it will be desirable tor the Society 
to take note of the visit of the Commissioners, by arrang- 
ing for a conversazione or an exhibition of articles in 
conneétion with the history of the colony and its produéts, 
to be given in honour of their visit. You should mark 
your sense of the importance of the visit in some way or 
other, and, doubtless, what I have just proposed will 
be of some interest to the Commissioners as well. The 
Commissioners as you know, are being accompanied 
by Dr. Morris, a gentleman who is pre-eminently able 
to le€ture on minor tropical produéts, I believe that 
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