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d noi produce seed, attention should be directed to bud variations 
which might appear accidentally i in the же Next in a paper on the 
West Indies, read by Mr. Morris in March 1888, before the London 
Chamber of Commerce, that gentleman again stated that canes could 
not produce seed, and repeated his advice about bud variations. At 
that time we had at Dodds, seedling canes three months old, and the 
mt i rss of E had proved conclusively in 1887 that t the 
e seed, and had published his results in the 
_ Later in the year f icm from Mr. Morris a copy of his paper, 
and after reading it, wrote to him on September 17th, 1888, on behalf 
of Mr. Bovell and myself, байн him if it was not somewhat indise 
to commit himself to such a statement in the face of the on that in 
Barbados many planters were satisfied that canes could be 
° seeds, that several instances existed in which canes had boe n grown 
from nie a also shortly describing the results вы at Dodds, 
This 1 which we regarded, and still regard, as a private one, did 
not receive v hot Mr. Morris the courtesy of either acknowledgment or 
y, but to our astonishment and indignation certain portions of it 
н published by him in the “ Kew Bulletin” for December 1888. 
rst intimation of this was by seeing the footnote headed “ Seed 
lings of Sugar Cane” оп page 11 of the “ Times" Weekly Edition for 
December 1888. 
In the notes added to our ee in the Kew Bulletin, Mr. Morris 
most carefully reserved his final о 
In our letter of September 17th, we kei Mr. Morris for the benefit 
of his opinion and adviee, but have received neither advice nor assistance 
from him. 
The next statement, that “under his instructions I buried the 
* flowering head of a сапе in the ground,” is absolutely false. No such 
instructions were ever given by Mr. Morris, and most certainly if I 
had dem a cane arrow in the ground no plants would ever have grown 
rom 
In Ji anuary 1889, spikelets of the cane were stripped from the arrows 
by Mr. Bovell and sown. Of these se many contained fertiie seeds, which 
germinated and ыы and certain of the germinated seeds were preserved 
as microscopic о 
and also Hay out the а Д of diutius specimens of what is 
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of 16th October wrote to me stating that they * were very anxious to 
* obtain specimens A sugar-cane arrows with seed for the AEF: 
* Herbarium,” and asked for assistance in this matter “as soon 
sible.” In com panes with these requests, by the first aif in 
December 1889, we sent to Mr. Morris є bottle of cane spikelets con- 
taining, as we had 594 proved by germination experiments, fertile 
seeds, and at the same time to assist him in his examination of the 
spikelets we sent him patient of seeds and of tn in various 
stages of germination which we had preserved in glyceri 
From the seeds which he thus obtained, Mr. Morris d raised seed- 
lings, and has also described and figured the actual seeds. At th е same 
time apparently he has tacitly allowed the credit belonging to an inves- 
tigation which he neither originated nor in any assisted in to be entirely 
ascribed to himself. 
