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necessity and justice of imposing a countervailing duty on bounty -fed 
sugar as the only fair and practicable means of permanently and 
effeftually averting destruction of the British and Colonial sugar indus- 
try ; and with a view to carrying out the object of this resolution, that 
the Chairman be requested to correspond with the Chambers of Com- 
merce and Agriculture in the several Islands. 
The President said that as the matter had already 
been dealt with by this Society, and everything that 
could be done in respe6t to the present condition of the 
sugar industry, he believed, had been done, a courteous 
reply stating the decision this Society had arrived at in 
the matter might be forwarded to Mr. Richards. The 
suggestion was adopted. 
The Colony Birds. — The President in regard to the 
collection of birds recently left by Mr. Whitely, in the 
Museum, read the following letter : — 
Zoological Society of London, 
13th Oftober, 1884. 
Sir, — I venture to trouble you with reference to the collections of 
birds made by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana, which, taken 
together, form by far the best and largest series of the birds of the 
country that has been brought to Europe. 
Mr. Whitely has, I believe, disposed of the greater portion of his 
specimens in this country, but retains with him, on his return to British 
Guiana, a complete set. 
I beg leave to suggest that it would be very desirable that this set 
should be acquired for the Museum in Georgetown, or for some other 
scientific institution in British Guiana. 
I may mention that in conjunction with Mr. O. Salvia, I am about to 
prepare a complete list of all the birds obtained by Mr. Whitely, of 
which I shall be pleased to forward to you copies when published. 
Trusting you will excuse my addressing you under the circumstances 
mentioned. 
P. L. SCLATER, 
Secy, to the Zoological Society of London, 
The Hon. B. H. Jones. 
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