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Kakeralli ... oui -. Lecythis ollaria, 
Letter Wood... — ...Piratinera Aubletii. 
Hoobooballi ... aise ... Mimosa guianensis, 
Wallaba sus sow ... Eperua falcata, 
Wamara vis iss ... Swartzia tomentosa. 
Waibana ... sete ...Nectandra sp. 
Upper Demerara River, 
3rd May, 1897. 
Thos, Daly, Esq., 
Hon, Sec, R. A. & C, Society, 
Sir,—I have the pleasure to inform you that now the rains have set 
in you can expec the woods ordered at end of the present month. I 
shall let you know when I| am loading same, so that you may inform me 
where you will require these woods to be put. AsI have already said Iam 
bringing samples of each specimen, also pieces of each log of those 
woods which I collected some time ago for Mr. Quelch for the Imperial 
Institute, which pieces-were reported upon by Mr. Ransome. * * * 
Yours faithfully, 
EDWARD SEON. 
In reference to Mr. Seon’s samples the Hon. Mr. Boyle 
said it would be a good thing if they were examined be- 
fore being sent to England, With all due deference to 
Mr. Seon, he was of opinion that their last attempt to 
find a market for their timbers was a miserable failure, 
In September last he had informed them what he had 
done to bring their timbers into notice, and now it was 
near the end of May and the logs had not yet arrived in 
Georgetown. The merchants of London would laugh at 
them when they found it took over nine months to get 
samples. 
The President stated that in this case there was excuse 
