REPORT OF SOCIETY’S MEETINGS, 215 
“ That the Society offer premiums for the best sample 
of colony grown and cured tobacco, and cigars made 
from such tobacco, and that the Government be asked 
to bring forward a motion in the Combined Court for 
granting a sum in aid.” , 
In reference to certain analyses of rice laid over at the 
previous meeting, the Hon. Mr. Jones reported that he 
had received a letter from the Government Analyst 
highly favourable to the colony grown article as com- 
pared with that which was imported. 
The Secretary reported that Mr. Seon had written 
stating that he was leaving with the timbers ordered for 
town on the 7th instant. Mr. Daly also stated that 
arrangements had been made for examining the logs, and 
if satisfa€tory, shipping them by the Godiva or Nonpareil. 
The Hon. Mr. Jones spoke of alog of greenheart taken 
from a house in Leguan, to all appearance sound, having 
been discovered, on attempting to utilise it for a fishing © 
rod, to be so exceedingly brittle as to be useless. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded for the fol- 
lowing donations :— ° 
fo the Library— 
From Mr. R. M. Clegg—The Burns Calendar; Wm. 
Burnes’ Manual of Religious Belief, and B.G. Catalogue 
of Exhibits to Exhibition of 1851. 
From the President—J. B. Harrison’s Rocksand Soils 
of Grenada and Carriacou. 
From Dr. Ernst—Alegato de Venezuela; President 
Crespo’s Message, 1897; Contribucion al Estudio del 
Cafe en Venezuela. 
To the Museum— 
Alligator Eggs ie on ue ...Capt. Cameron, | 
