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'HE JOURNAL OF THE KOYAL 
Thursciaj^, the 13th inst., on " The Mosquito and 
Malaria," illustrated by diagrams and the magic lantern. 
The meeting then terminated. 
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Meeting held March 20th, 1902.—M.Y. Luke M. Hill, 
B.E., M. Inst. C.E , President, in the chair. 
Members present 12. 
The President said : Before proceeding with the 
election of candidates he desired to refer to the loss the 
Society and the Agricultural interests of the Colony 
had sustained by the death of Mr. G. S. Jenman, late 
Government Botanist, and an Honorary member of the 
Society for a number of years. Mr. Jenman had 
superintended the Botanic Gardens for 22 J years, a 
great portion of his time being devoted to what might 
be called constructional work, the forming and estab- 
lishing of the Gardens as they now exist ; and securing 
indigenous plants for cultivation and for exchange with 
other botanical stations. It was, however, in economic 
botany, that Mr. Jenman's services were of most value 
to the agriculture of the Colony, and they would all 
recognize the care and attention he devoted to the 
culture and development of seedling canes — first in 
association with the late Mr. E. E. H. Francis, and in 
later years more thoroughly and intimately with 
Professor Harrison, in continuation of that gentleman's 
early work in Barbados. A casual visitor to the 
Gardens, seeing and admiring simply the decorative 
portion, could have no conception of the valuable and 
extensive economic work carried on inside the nursery 
enclosure, and in the experimental cane plots aback, 
