REPout OP Society's Meetincs. 6t 
year. Mr. Jones had also mentioned to him that the 
sorrel (Hibiscus Sabdarifa) yielded a splendid fibre and 
grew well in all kinds of soils. 
Mr. Quelch said he had seen sorrel fibres 14 ft. in length. 
The President asked Mr. Quelch to extend his enqui- 
ries, and if possible lay the information before the next 
meeting. * 
The Secretary reported that Mr. Fred White had for- 
warded the fibre plants on the table. 
The Assistant Secretary stated that Mr. White spoke 
of growing some fibre plants on the sides of the Deme- 
rara-Essequebo Railway and was desirous of getting 
information. The samples of so-called Crowa were 
really pine-apple ; the two varieties, with and without 
spines, being well-known. The Krattee was a species 
of Fourcroya and possibly the name Crowa might be a 
corruption of Fourcroya. 
In reply to a question of Mr. Hargreaves, Mr. Quelch 
said he did not know whether the Bromeliads that grew 
so plentifully in the Kaieteur savannah yielded a good 
fibre, but judging by the trouble they gave in cutting 
a way through them he thought that if so it must be very 
strong. 
It was agreed that further discussion be left over until 
the next meeting. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the Revd. 
Canon Stevenson for a donation to the Library of 
Robertson's Organ Building, 2 vols. 
Also for the following donations to the Museum : — 
Egg of Gullimot, presented by Miss Murray ; rare cater- 
pillar, by W. N. Quinn ; beetle, by William Hart ; 
colubrine snake, by G. S. Jenman ; butterfly, by E. Year- 
