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This led to the following communications being received from him. 
GOVERNMENT Бакти. <a Guiana, to AssISTANT Tamagos 
al Gardens, Kew 
Government м Demerara, 
Sir, August 28, 1890. 
My attention has been called on many occasions lately by my 
friends in England to the many paragraphs which have appeared not 
only in the daily papers but in scientific ones, in which the whole credit 
of an investigation which you did not originate or in any way take part 
in is ascribed to you. Аз І believed that you would make an opportunity 
of eorrecting such mis-statements, up to the present I have not taken 
steps to publicly right Mr. Bovell and m 
These statements originated in the Manchester press, have thence been 
copied and spread through the majority of English papers, and appear 
have arisen from the paper read before the Linnean Society by 
yourself, in which judging only by the published accounts, while you 
gave us credit for growing self-sown seedlings you apparently omitted to 
mention the further stages of our investigation as detailed in our report 
for 1889 a copy of which you have received. 
In the * Manchester Examiner and Times” of July 29th, eas а 
long эзен headed “Sugar Cane Seed (from a Correspondent). = 
this article appear statem ents which are absolutely false, and which are 
so manifestly unfair to those who originated and carried out the 
investigation in question that I am forced to take notice of it. 
have therefore addressed a letter to the Editor of that paper which 
if he declines to publish I shall takes steps to have published and 
circulated. I enclose a copy of it for your information 
I may add that much indignation is felt in the West Indies by what 
is there considered your having tacitly allowed the credit due to the Java 
investigators and to Dodd's s Experimental Station to be entirely ascribed 
Trusting t that before you receive this letter you will have taken ste 
ese false impressions and so render the publication of my 
letter nk enne 
I am, &с. 
D. Morris, edi F.L.S., (Signed) J. B. Harrison. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
P.S.—I have written the above and the enclosed letter entirely on my . 
own responsibility, and have not consulted Mr. Bovell on the subject. 
| [ Enclosure. ] 
To the Editor of the * Manchester Examiner and Times." 
Government Laboratory, British Guiana, 
Sin, ugust 22, 
My attention has been drawn by friends in England to an article 
headed “ Sugar Cane Seed (from a Correspondent) ” which appeared ‘in 
your paper under date of July 29th. As many of the statements in 
that article are absolutely untrue, I must ask you to kindly allow me 
space to correct them. 
The statement that Mr. Morris, of ok has long held the opinion that 
there are seeds by which the sugar-cane could be grown, is strikingly 
at variance with his published ones. On the 12th May 1886, Mr. 
Morris wrote to the Colonial Office pointing out that as the sugar-cane 
