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each case whether it is necessary or desirable to refer 
them to this country. 
Sgd. FRED. GRAHAM, 
(For the Secretary of State.) 
The President said he was surprised to see that no 
agriculturalists had been invited to the Conference. This 
was the more strange as there were several good men in 
Barbados. He also thought that Mr. Blair, the Inspe6lor 
of Schools, who had been conne6led with agricultura 
teaching in Ceylon, should have been invited. 
A letter from the Grenada Agricultural Society was 
read, enclosing leaflets on the fermentation or sweating 
of cacao, and the leaflets referred to were laid on the 
table. 
The following paper by Messrs. Harrison and Scard 
in reply to the pamphlet on the Microbe in Faulty Rum 
by Mr, and Mrs. Veley, was laid over for publication :— 
We have received from the authors a copy of this 
monograph, the first twenty-one pages of which are 
largely devoted to attacks on our paper published in 
Vol. XII of Timehrif Part I, and in the Sugar Cane, 
Vol. XXX, pp. 410, et seq. These attacks are evidently 
intended to minimise the fa6l that the authors of the 
monograph have failed to make their organism develop 
in rum. If the attacks were fair ones, and not misleading 
statements and misrepresentations of the results given in 
our paper, we should have no grounds for complaint. 
It is the first time we have known of scientists of stand- 
ing and repute resorting to such methods ; and we cannot 
allow such misrepresentations to pass unchallenged. 
One of the first notices contributed by the authors, of 
their discovery, appeared in the Sugar Cane, 1 867, p. 350, 
in which they stated that they had discovered " a ba6le- 
rium which not only lives but multiplies rapidly in certain 
samples of rum" and in accordance with this on page 4 
of their recent work they state " continuous examination 
