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would do, because although they could not keep it 
green they could show its form. Large masses of palm 
leaves, cocoanuts in bunches, pods of cocoa as well as 
the powder — samples of any out-of-the-way products of 
that sort would be attractive to people in the northern 
hemisphere. " Messrs. Pickford and Black," he con- 
tinued, ''intend themselves to issue a large handbook 
descriptive of a tour through the West Indies, which 
will also include British Guiana. Mr. Pickford thinks 
that possibly this Society might undertake to prepare 
another handbook relating to this colony more particu- 
larly. Perhaps one could be prepared on a similar scale 
to that prepared for the Chicago exhibition." 
Mr. Hargreaves : "I don't know whether the Society 
proposes to send any exhibits. We have a lot of 
interesting things here, and barring packing it would 
not cost us anything to send them. There are things 
we have sent to other exhibitions — the Colonial exhibi- 
tion, for example." 
Mr. Hill : " I have said that I don't think we can 
promise to do very much as a Society beyond collecting 
and forwarding exhibits. I mentioned to Mr. Pickford, 
however, that we might certainly get up an ethnologi- 
cal exhibit." 
:- Mr. Mackay: *'I certainly think that considering that 
a couple of years ago the imports into Canada of sugar, 
our ' staple,' were something like 130,000 tons, and 
probabl}^ within the next two or three years of the nex^ 
decade will increase to 200,000 or 300,000 tons, we 
ought to have our ' staple ' well represented." 
Continuing, Mr. Mackay enlarged upon the neces- 
sity for sending specimens of all the products of 
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