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JOURNAL 



^ield islkttifklij^' Club. 



Vol. ii. JUNE, 1895. No. 8. 



REPORT OF CLUB MEETINGS. 



19th April. 



PRESENT: His Honour Sir John Goldney, V.P. (in the 

 chair), Hon. Lieut. Col. D. Wilson, C.M.G., V.D., Professor 

 Carmodv, Messrs. W. S. Tucker, T. W. Carr, J. Barclay, Thos. 

 I. Potter, E. D. Ewen, J. H. Collens and F. W. Urich, Hon. 

 Secretary. The Secretary was directed to send a letter condoling 

 with Mr. H. Caracciolo in his recent bereavement. — The Secretary 

 stated that the Victoria Institute authorities had, subsequently 

 to the failure of the negociations for the amalgamation of the 

 Club with the Institute in January, met and elected all the 

 members of the Club to membership in the Victoria Institute, 

 without exacting any membership fees and subscriptions and it 

 would now be necessary to rearrange the meetings. He would 

 pro; lose that they should alternate their meetings with those of 

 the Victoria Institute. It was decided that the meetings of 

 the Club should take place on the second Tuesda}' evening of 

 every alternate month. — Mr. Urich read a paper on a recent 

 visit he had made to the Cuacharo Caves of Oropouche and 

 described the road, the caves and the animals he saw. Colonel 

 Wilson, who has always been a pioneer to the opening up of 

 some of the most fertile districts of the Island, supplemented 

 Mi'. Urich's paper by some valuable information, he having pre- 

 viously visited the district a short time before. The gallant Colonel 

 referred to the rich cocoa soil to be had there, the healthiness 

 of the district, the beauty of the scenery, the beautiful rivers, 

 which he said, by the way, were not v^w'-' ] y given in the map 

 of Trinidad. He then went on to describe how General Mendoza 



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