402 TlMEHRl. 
Donations. — The following donations were made to 
the Society, and the Secretary was directed to tender 
the Society's thanks to the donors : — 
" West Indians Yarns, by X. Beke,"- -presented by 
Mr. G. H. Hawtayne ; " The River Tweed from its source 
to the sea" — presented by Mr. R. W. Imlach ; "The 
Epinal Glossary," forwarded by the Afting Government 
Secretary with the annexed letter : — 
29th November, 1884. 
Sir, — I have the honor by direction of the Governor to forward to you 
under separate cover for presentation to the Royal Agricultural and 
Commercial Society a copy of the Epinal M. S. which has been received 
from the subscribers through Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of 
State for the Colonies. v 
F. J. VILLIERS. 
The Honorary Secretary of the 
Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society. 
A photographic "view of Clough paddles taken out of 
a sluice at the Trafford Dock, Liverpool, March 1859," 
was sent to the colony by Dr. Imlach for the purpose of 
presentation to the Society, with this memorandum : — 
"The dock was built in 1843 and the paddles supplied 
new at that date. The part formed of English Oak is 
decayed and completely worn out. The Greenheart 
from Georgetown, British Guiana, remains as sound as 
when first used." 
The Sugar-trade Crisis. — The Secretary said he was in 
receipt of a letter from Mr. Richards, chairman of a public 
meeting recently held in St. Lucia, forwarding the annexed 
resolution with reference to the Sugar Industry of the 
West Indies : — 
That this meeting would suggest that the British West India 
Colonies should, by concerted aftion with the general Trade Unions 
and Associations interested, urge upon the British Government the 
