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written in terms of the suggestions at the previous 
meeting, and the reply of Dr. Morris : — 
Imperial Department 
of Agriculture for 
the West Indies, 
Barbados, 31st March, 1902. 
Sir, 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt 
of your letter of the 22nd instant and I desire to thank 
the Members of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial 
Society for their courtesy in respect of my letter of 
the 3rd instant. 
2. That letter was intended in the first place to 
correct a statement made by Mr. Scard placing it on 
record that the President had " raised " the ques- 
tion of prsedial larceny at the Conference ; and in 
the second place to express regret that I had not been 
favoured by the Society with a copy of Mr. Scard's 
report until some weeks after it was presented and 
published. 
3. I had no wish whatever to take exception to the 
criticisms contained in Mr. Scard's report. On the 
other hand, the tendency of what I stated was that I 
regretted that Mr. Scard had not offered suggestions 
before and thus enabled those in charge of the Con- 
ference an opportunity of carefully considering them. 
4. I trust the Members of the Society will accept my 
?«ssurance that I am most anxious to enhance the value 
of these Annual Conferences and to render them of the 
greatest service to all parts of the West Indies, and any 
criticisms or suggestions to that end that may be com- 
municated to me by your Society, one of the oldest in 
this part of the world and of which I have been for 
a 
