42 I'he Journal of the Royal 
The reply of the Government acknowledging the 
Secretary's letter forwarding copy of Society's resolution 
in re countervailing duties was read and taken for 
notification. 
A communication from the Board of Agriculture 
in reference to a show of agricultural machines and 
implements at the next Horticultural Exhibition was 
referred to the Committee of Correspondence. 
The following letter from Dr. D. Morris in reference 
to Mr. F. I. Scard's report on the late Agricultural Con- 
ference was read : — 
Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for the West Indies. 
Barbados, 3rd March, 1902. 
Sir, 
I have noticed in the newspapers an extract 
from a report recently presented to the British Guiana 
Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society by Mr. F. I. 
Scard on the Agricultural Conference held, under the 
auspices of this department, at Barbados, in January 
last. 
2. I have not been favoured with a copy oi this 
report either by Mr. Scard himself, or the Society, but 
I presume that what has appeared, in print, correctly 
represents Mr. Scard's views. 
3. I would, first of all, desire to correct an error into 
which he has fallen in stating that the question of 
praedial larceny was '' raised " by me ai the Conference. 
It cropped up incidentally, in a remark made by Mr. 
Harbin of Grenada, in reference to a possible difficulty, 
in establishing School Gardens in that island. What 
took place, afterwards, was entirely foreign to the 
