Report of Society's Meetings. 91 
Government Secretary's Office, 
Georgetown, Demerara, 
nth June, 1898. 
Sir, — I have the honour by direftion of the Governor 
to forward to you the attached copy of a letter from the 
Secretary of the Imperial Institute, with reference to the 
representation of the produ6ls of this Colony in the 
Institute. 
2. His Excellency will be glad to receive an expres- 
sion of the views of your Society upon the question 
therein raised. 
I have, &c., 
CAVENDISH BOYLE. 
Imperial Institute Road, 
London, S. W., 
13th May, 1898. 
Sir,— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 22nd March, and I am to inform you 
that the Executive Council of the Imperial Institute have 
learnt with regret that the Combined Court of British 
Guiana have come to the decision to discontinue the 
payments made, annually, for the maintenance of the 
Court representing the products of British Guiana in the 
Imperial Institute. 
I am dire6led to state that, even although the Govern- 
ment of the Colony may not find itself in a position to 
continue the repayment of the expenses incurred by the 
Institute in conne6lion with this subject, it is hoped— 
and indeed desired — that the interests of the Colony 
should still be represented upon the Governing Body of 
the Institute ; and, in view of the fa6t that special eiiurib 
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