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Associates : Messrs. J. Harold Glover and 

 B. V. Abraham, jnr. 

 The Chairman read the annexed letter from the Presi- 

 dent:^ 



Georgetown, Demerara, 28th April, 1896. 

 Dear Mr. Luard, — I would beg you to express for me to the members 

 of R. A. & C. Society the great regret I feel at being forced to leave the 

 Colony during my year of office. It is only under compulsion that I 

 have been induced to absent myself just now, as during the summer 

 and autumn weather I had looked forward to a time of much useful 

 work in the Society. I hope you will press on the projeft of the Model 

 Farm. I trust, indeed, we may be able to carry it out ourselves, or, at 

 any rate, start it. The Government, as you know, can do nothing now. 

 Wishing you, the Society, and the Colony, every prosperity. 



Believe me. Most faithfully yours, 

 CAVENDISH BOYLE. 

 Hon. E. C. Luard, M.C.P., 



Vice-Pres. R. A. & C. Society. 

 The following communication from the Agricultural 

 Committee was taken for notification : — 



To the President and Members 



of the R. A. & C. Society. 

 Gentlemen, — In accordance with the Government Regulations under 

 which the Agricultural Committee of the Society are entitled to free 

 analyses of articles of public interest by the Government Chemist, I 

 have the honour to lay over five (5) reports on soils from Pins. Noitge- 

 dacht and Le Desir, No. i Canal, which the Committee consider of 

 very great importance in connexion with Coffee cultivation. 

 I have, &c., 



S. BELLAIRS, 

 Hony. Secretary Agricultural Committee. 

 P.S. — I have also the honour to lay over three samples of Ramie 

 Fibre in different stages of manufafture. 



CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS 



Of a sample ot Soil marked " Noitgedacht," Canal No. i. Good 



