Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Grenada. 13 11 May, 1891. out a few. The report present projects was very amusing tonight in consequence of the absurd questions he asked the lecturer, the Governor - who presided - having also invited them present to put questions to the Lecturer. Mr. Donovan, a dark colored sulky looking man, the Editor of a radical newspaper called the Canada People's Voice tried to start a discussion on the question of the Government subsidy to the Levi of fruit streams running to the State with the object of discrediting the Government. But Sir Walter very properly intervened as Chairman and stopped the discussion as it was foreign to the purpose for which the meeting was called, and a Mr. [illegible] was persistent - the Governor had to ask him to sit down. 12 May, 1891. Tuesday. This morning Sir Walter and I rode down to the Botanic Garden, and she went on the Garden walk with Dr Smith, the Curator. Smith, who has had no special training for the work, was sent out to St Vincent by the joint Committee of the Royal Society and British Association formed for the purpose of investigating the fauna and flora of the Lesser Antilles. Smith did not take in St Vincent for the Committee, and when Mr. Murray, the junior Curator, our made to resign, he was appointed.