All Communications and Exchanges intended for the Club 

 should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, Port-of- 

 Spain, Trinidad, B.W.J. 



JOURNAL 



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Vol. ii. AUGUST, 1S94. No. 3 



REPORT OF CLUB MEETINGS. 



1st June, 189 J. 



PRESENT : Mr. H. Caracciolo (President), Professor Carmody, 

 Dr. Rake, Messrs. Syl. Devenish M.A., J. R. Llanos, C. J. 

 Thavenot, Henry Tate, T. W. Carr, H. J. Baldamus, Charles 

 I^ibert, W. E. Broadway, J. Hoadley, S. A. Cumberland, R. R. 

 Mole and F. W. Urich, Hon. Secretary. The visitors were 

 Messrs. Alick Hamlyn, and Sokowiski, (Columbia), and Master 

 Carmody. Dr. J. R. Dickson was elected a Town Member. A 

 letter was read from Professor C. V. Riley (Washington), 

 thanking the Club for his election as an Honorary Member. A 

 communication was read from the Club's taxidermist upon some 

 animals which he was preparing for the collection. A letter was 

 also read from the Librarian of the British Museum with refer- 

 ence to numbers of the journal required to complete the first 

 volume in the Museum Library. The Secretary read a commu- 

 nication from Mr. A. B. Carr upon the cocoa beetle, (Steirostoma 

 depression) which contained much original, interesting and use- 

 ful information, on the habits of this cocoa pest, with some 

 practical suggestions as to methods of dealing with the same. 

 Specimens of the larvae and the beetle were exhibited. .Mr. 

 Cumberland read a short paper by the same gentleman upon the 

 " Poor me one " (Nyctibius jamaicensis) No 32 of Dr. Leotaud's 

 collection. The song of this goat sucker is remarkably mournful 

 and is described by the peasantry as " Poor me one," but is 

 attributed by them to t\ie\ittlennt-eatev(C 1 >/clo(hurus<ti(t<ui!/h's), — 



