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SuMMARY. 
The chief object of my mission to the West Indies was to give such 
assistance as might be required by the several Governments 1 in laying 
innumerable petty Боевые difficulties which Tc hitherto hindered 
the effective working of the scheme and given rise to considerable cor- 
respondence. While ae ic I had been requested by the Secretary 
of State to afford as much assistance as possible in regard to the develop- 
ment of local ет ме? to render generally my visit to the several 
islands as effective and as useful as the time at my disposal woul 
allow. It will be gathered from my report that I visited first of all the 
Leeward Islands, and devoted three Misc d in carefully planning and 
сч ang of advising in regard to industries best suited to their require- 
ents. Public — were delivered at Antigua, Dominica, Mont- 
ыы, and St. K 
then pr anand to the Windward Islands for three weeks more 
exactly similar course was pursued in regard to the Botanical 
Stations at St. Lucia, St. Vince nt, 4 iere: Addresses were also 
delivered in each of these islands, a uch time was spent in affording 
information to the Governments xil to овд private people who sought 
it, on a careful study of their special circumstances. Althoug 
Barbados was not included in the scope of my mission as first planned, 
I was happy to accede to an invitation extended to me while in the 
West Indies to visit and report upon the Botanical Station at Dodd. 
I further gave an address in the Council Chamber at Bridgetown on 
cultural industries. My visit to Jamaica gave me an excellent oppor- 
tunity of witnessing the great ie Pen made in island of recent 
years, d I was able to diseuss with the Assistant-Colonial Secretary 
and with Mr. Fawcett the detail ^ any connexion that might be con- 
Jamaica to edet from time to time viis cie die of ie seed of Blue 
Mountain coffee and of other economics procurable in commercial quanti- 
ties for the Leeward Islands. I was also able to procure for them what 
they had hitherto failed to receive, viz., a valuable consignment of the 
suckers of the Jamaica banana required for the American market. I 
gave the ed lecture in connexion with Jamaica Exhibition on 
February 9t 
It only remains now for me to refer to the general icis y 
arrived at in regard to the supervision of the Botanical Station im 
Г been ‘felt all along that the smaller islands uda present 
circumstances could not support any considerable organisation of their 
