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mission, pp. 145-7, ^"^ ^" ^^^ enclosed extra6ls from 
letters addressed to this Department by Dr. Morris, con- 
taining suggestions for the consideration of Colonial 
Governments. In these suggestions I entirely concur, 
and I would especially call your attention to the proposal 
for arranging a Conference of the chief chemical and 
botanical officers in the West Indies, at an early date 
with a view to the prosecution of a policy of co-operative 
effort. 
5. The series of experiments in sugar cane cultivation 
which has been pursued in the colony under your Gov- 
ernment has been of interest and value in the past, and 
it is proposed to render assistance in continuing and 
extending these experiments, in conne6lion with the 
work of the new Department, as from the ist 06lober 
next. In the meantime, I enclose for your consideration 
a further extra6l from a letter from Dr. Morris with 
regard to preliminar}'' measures, upon which I shall be 
glad if you will communicate with him at an early date, 
and will for the present only add that £500 out of the 
grant in S. 3 will probable be available for sugar cane 
experiments in British Guiana. 
6. As the Parliamentary vote is taken in the form of a 
" Grant-in-aid," it will be necessary that all expenditure 
on such experiments which is to be reimbursed out of 
that grant, should in the first instance be provided for in 
the usual way on the Estimates of the colony. For 
purposes of audit in this country, the certificate of the 
Commissioner will be required that the money in question 
has been expended as contemplated by Parliament, and 
for this purpose it will be necessary that he should be 
furnished regularly with detailed accounts of such colo- 
nial expenditure. 
7. No provision has been made for the purchase of 
land or for buildings, which must be provided by the 
Local Governments so far as may be necessary. 
8. I have lo add that, as a highly technical officer will 
now be stationed in the West Indies, it will be desirable 
that such questions as have hitherto been referred to the 
Dire6lor of Kew Gardens should in future be dealt with 
by the Commissioner of Agriculture, who will decide in 
