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time to continue the experiments, none of the present 
results being entirely satisfactory. 
The President read a paper on the Slicing ot canes 
and Diffusion, in which he said experiments had shewn 
him that it was a loss to reduce cane to small dimensions 
before subjecting it to the crushing mills. He believed 
in the future of the diffusion process. 
The President laid over a few hybrid canes found on 
Pin. Greenfield, which were ordered to be handed to 
Mr. Jenman for experiment and report. 
A letter from Mr. Walker, the Society's Resident 
Director in London, dated 14th July, dealing with 
the cataloguing of the books in the library, was referred 
to the Book Committee. 
A letter was read from Mr. John McKillop, of Tobago, 
tendering his thanks for having been elected an honorary 
member of the Society. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the 
Government Secretary of British Guiana and the Trus- 
tees of the British Museum for contributions of books' 
Statistical Tables and Commercial Reports. 
The meeting then terminated. 
Cane Slicing and Diffusion. — The following is the 
President's paper on the above subject read at the 
August meeting : — 
Since Mr. Matthey read his highly instructive paper 
on diffusion as applied to the sugar cane, there has been 
a considerable amount ol inquiry into the subject, includ- 
ing a visit from Mr. Shulz, the able agent of an enter- 
prising German firm of engineers, whose headquarters 
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