Report of Society's Meetings. 213 
I st Class Certificate & Silver Medal. . . Photographs Exhibition Com . 
Henry Kirke, 
Commissioner for British Guiana. 
1 8th March, 1884. 
Mr. Garnett was understood to ask whether the 
awards had been made after comparison of our sugars 
with those of other countries, or merely after compari- 
son of the samples sent from this colony with each other. 
The chairman said he inferred from the Official 
Notice, signed by the A6ting Government Secretary, 
which described the awards as having been made (( in 
respect of exhibits from this colony," that the samples 
from here had only been compared with each other. 
Consumption of fuel in Boilers. — The President said 
that, as a sequel to the recent discussions at the meetings 
of the Society on the burning of green megass in boiler 
furnaces, he would like to refer to a very important and 
interesting paper on boilers and fuel that had recently 
been read at the Institute of Civil Engineers, by Mr. 
William Anderson, a member of the Institute, and also 
of the firm of Easton and Anderson, formerly Easton 
and Amos, who had long been connected with this 
colony, and had supplied many of our draining engines 
and other machinery. The paper was of intense interest 
to those interested in fuel consumption and boilers — and 
a good many of the members of this Society were so, — 
and of great interest to everybody. It was written in 
such language that even those not connected with 
machinery would have great pleasure and gain much 
knowledge by reading it. The lecturer thoroughly 
threshed out the whole system of burning fuel ; and 
expressed the opinion that there was not very much 
more improvemeut to be made on boilers. He (Mr. 
