242 JOUENAL OP THE TRINIDAD 



Publication Committee's Report, 



IN accordance with Rule 29, the Publication Committee have 

 the honour to make their Annual Report on their transactions 

 for the year 1894-95. 



During the year the Committee have issued six numbers of 

 the Journal containing 144 pages of Reports of Proceedings, 

 original papers and extracts from the publications of societies 

 engaged in Zoological research, a decrease of 34 pages upon the 

 previous year. The Reports of Meetings are up to date and the 

 great efforts of the Committee have been successful in reducing 

 the number of original papers in arrear from eleven to six. 



During the past 12 months 24 original papers have appeared 

 in the Journal, and whereas last year the Committee were dis- 

 posed to take a desponding view of the gradually accumulating 

 mass of manuscript they are now seriously alarmed at an antici- 

 pated dearth of material — the next two Journals will exhaust 

 their stock completely and the Committee therefore take this 

 opportunity of appealing to the members, and the country mem- 

 bers especially, to help forward the Society's work by placing 

 their observations on record. The simplest facts in Natural 

 History, and especially economic Natural History should be noted 

 and forwarded to the Committee and will always find a place in 

 the Journal where they cannot fail to be of service to other 

 members. It has been strongly felt tor sometime past that the 

 members do not fully appreciate the value of the opportunities 

 afforded them in this respect, and in this connection it is interest- 

 ing to note that only 12 of the 2 ! papers .bove referred to have 

 a distinct value as dealing with questions of economic Natural 

 History. What a vast scope for improvement is there here ! 

 The Committee would oe glad to see the Club making more use 

 of the pages of the Journal and cordially invite it to do so. 



The death roll of the Club has been exceptionally long 

 during the past year and it has been the melancholy duty of the 

 Publication Committee to compile a corresponding number of 

 obituary notices. The most important of these was one which 

 the Committee feels was a very inadequate attempt to place on 

 record in the annals of the Club the services of our late 

 President, Dr. Rake. The capital portrait which accompanied 

 it was obtained through the kind instrumentality of an eminent 

 scientist who is also one of our Honorary members, Professor Dr. 

 Boettgerof Frankfurt, who has done good work for us in this and 

 other ways and to whom our grateful acknowledgments are due. 



