184 PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
Election of Officers. 
The Ballot for Officers for the year 1867-68 having been 
taken, the following were declared duly elected : 
The Hon. Louis Antoine Aime de Yerteuil, M.D., President. 
Horace Deighton, Esq., M.A., F.B.A.S., Vice-President . 
Eobert John Lechmere Guppy, Esq., F.G.S., F.L.S., Secre- 
tary and Treasurer. 
Henry William Caird, Esq., M.A., Member of Council with- 
out Office. 
The Association then proceeded to revise the Eules. The 
Eules were amended accordingly. 
The following Communication was read 
On the Manufacture of Sugar by the Process of Drying the 
Cane. By The Hon. Henry Stuart Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D. 
Although borrowed from even the earliest stage of the 
beetroot under the consulate, it was not till 1845 that 
the operation of slicing was applied to the sugar-cane. 
It was hoped that the cane, after having been sliced and 
dried and ground , into powder, might be preserved long 
enough unchanged in this condition to allow of its being 
transported to Europe, where, not merely the whole sugar 
might be extracted at once in its present form, but the lig- 
neous portion would furnish an inexhaustible supply of 
fibre for the paper market. The Intercolonial tonnage also 
would thereby have been necessarily doubled. These hopes 
were, however, doomed to disappointment. The dried cane 
powder became altered on the voyage, and not only did 
great part of the sugar disappear, but the changes conse- 
quent on its decomposition discoloured the residuary fibre. 
