REPORT OF SOCIETY’S MEETINGS. 211 
The Hon. Mr. Boyle thought Mr. Garnett had just 
grounds for complaint. As far as he understood, Dr. 
Morris was supplied when here witha sample of Liberian 
coffee with no idea that it was to be hawked about Lon- 
- don or to be tested. He thought that Dr. Morris should 
have informed Mr. Garnett if such had been his intention. 
It seemed as if the authorities at Kew were dealing too 
hardly with their struggling colony. Sometime ago they 
said the planters should give up Sugar and scatter india- 
rubber seeds, and they knew what the Colonial legislature 
said about that. It was hardly fair or right for Dr. Morris 
to send an ordinary sample to his chief to be tested. 
The President said that at the request of Dr. Morris 
he was sending samples of coffee, and that the Doétor 
had remarked to him that he did not consider the sample 
from No. 1 Canal very good. 
The Hon, Mr. Boyle moved that the Society record its 
respe€tful protest against the manner in which the sample 
of Liberian coffee had been treated, and strongly sympa- 
thised with Mr. Garnett in the matter, and further that the 
protest and a copy of Mr. Garnett’s letter be forwarded 
to the Government, with a view to their reaching Mr. 
Thiselton-Dyer. 
This having been seconded by the Revd. D. J. Rey- 
nolds, it was carried unanimously. | 
The President gave aresumé ofa paper entitled “ The 
results of recent scientific researches into the agricul- 
tural improvement of the Sugar Cane.”* 
On the motion of the Hon. Mr. Boyle a vote of thanks 
was accorded, the mover calling attention to the great 
value of the paper. 3 
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* See page 84. 
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