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jis content with the knowledge that her sacrifice and her 
confidence have contributed to the profit and to the happiness 
of all her people. 
I will add only one word in conclusion. All this splendid 
work has been, and is being, done by the energy, the self- 
sacrificing zeal, of what I must be allowed to call the best 
Colonial service which the world has ever seen. Some people 
assess the value of their national greatness by wealth or by 
conquest. I would sooner trust the credit of my country to 
the character and attainments of the devoted band of men in 
the service who carry the name and the fame of our country 
to the uttermost corners of the habitable globe. 
Dr. Ozerto Manyerti (Italian Delegate): Mr. Chairman—lI 
am sorry I am unable to express my thanks to you, Sir, in 
English for your kind references to my country, and I trust 
that you will allow me to do so in Italian. 
Sono commosso per le parole veramente gentili che V. E. 
ha avuto per il mio Paese e per gli attestati di stima che Ella 
ha voluto dare agli studiosi Italiani che hanno parpecipato a 
questa riunione imponente. 
Al mio ritorno in Patria, sara mia cura informare il Governo 
Italiano ed i colleghi, che mi hanno inviato a Londra a 
rappresentarli, delle speciali cortesie che I’Inghilterra ha voluto 
tributare all’Italia, per il che io fin da ora anticipo i piu 
sentiti e profondi ringraziamenti. 
[Translation. ]J—I am deeply affected, Sir, by the very kind 
words in which you have spoken of my country and by the 
expression of the esteem in which you hold the Italian con- 
tributions to this Congress. 
On my return to my native land it will be my pleasant duty 
to inform the Italian Government and those of my colleagues 
who commissioned me to represent them in London oe the 
great courtesy which England has shown to Italy, for which 
I now wish to anticipate “them in expressing our deepest and 
most hearty thanks. 
The following papers were then read: — 
THE PRODUCTION OF FINE SEA ISLAND COTTON IN THE 
WEST INDIES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE 
ST. VINCENT INDUSTRY. 
By W. N. Sanps, F.L.S., 
Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent. 
[ ApsTrRAcr. ] 
At least 130 years ago a fine cotton, presumably Sea Island, 
was grown in the West Indies. Seed was sent to the United 
