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the timbers should be examined. He was well aware 
that they could not be scientifically tested here. 
The Rev. D. J. Reynolds spoke of the difficulty of 
executing a large order if it should be received. 
Mr, Gilzean said the difficulty of the abnormally dry 
season was seen in the high price of greenheart ; last 
year at this time it could be bought for 18 cents a foot, 
now it was 45 cents, and Mr. Hargreaves confirmed this. 
Mr. 7Eneas Mackay seconded Mr. Boyle’s amendment, 
and the motion having been withdrawn in its favour by 
Mr. Conrad, it was unanimously carried. 
Two letters from Mr. R. W. S. Mitchell, Calcutta, 
referring to a fresh parcel of Jute seed, were read. 
The Assistant Secretary stated that on trial the seed 
had been found good, and had been Cistributed to about 
twenty different persons, some of whom had promised 
to give it a fair trial. 
The following letter from Mr. Thos. Garnett was read, 
the Assistant Secretary stating that a copy of the report 
on a sample of Liberian Coffee, read at the past meet- 
ing, had been sent to the writer :— 
Georgetown, 24th April, 1897. 
Thomas Daly, Esq., 
Hon. Secretary of R. A. & C. Society. . 
Sir,—I am in receipt of your favour of 21st inst., enclosing copy of a 
communication from Kew Gardens, together with a Broker’s Report on 
a sample of Liberian Coffee, which, I presume, is the one (and unfor- 
tunately the only one) I got cured for Mr. Morris during his visit to this 
colony. 
I am rather at a loss to understand why this report—such as it is— 
has been sent to the Royal Agricultural & Commercial Society at all, and 
not dire&t to me or through the Government, considering that I per- 
sonally sent Mr. Morris the sample at his special request. But this is a 
matter of detail. 
Se DD 
