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which are microscopic insects and true hermophrodites. He 

 searched for sorue weeks and only secured oue or two specimens, 

 until one day near Laventille he turned over a log and found no 

 less than sixty of the commoner kind Edtcardnii, which is a 

 native of Venezuela. This was a most extraordinary find, and 

 can only be attributed to the fact that the weather was exceed- 

 ingly dry and the Peripati had retired to the log for the sake 

 of moisture, which is essential to their existence. I may here 

 mention that Trinidad is more continental than insular in its 

 physiological character, and has nothing in common Avith the 

 West Indies proper : and I am of opinion that exchanges with 

 Venezuela would be very profitable for the purpose of making 

 comparisons. He also found the Perij^atiis torqiKitvs, which is 

 a much larger species, and it is lei't to us now to find the 

 Trinidad species, Tr-initafis, Avhich has been solicited from me 

 by Dr. Guuther since the year 1889. The Club has also deter- 

 mined to make Economic Natural History a feature of its 

 researches. The most important work done by the Club in this 

 direction is the investigation of the habits of the small sugar-cane 

 borer, Avhich was undertaken by a committee appointed for that 

 jjurpose. This report, I am glad to say, has been well received 

 by the public who Avere kind enough to compliment us on our 

 success. Mr, Hart, the talented and energetic Director of the 

 Koyal Botanic Gardens, has kindly endeavoured to put the 

 Committee right on one or two points ; but after some lengthy 

 correspondence he was found to have been labouring under a 

 series of misapprehensions as to the precise ground taken up by 

 the Club, and as the further continuance of the correspondence 

 did not promise any fresh light on the subject other than thrown 

 by the Committee's report, it was decided to bring it to a close. 

 The Club has received complimentary letters on its inauguration 

 from many of the leading men of the scientific world — amongst 

 them I may mention Dr. Gunther, Mr. Uldfield Thomas, Mr. 

 A. G. Butler, of the British Museum, Loudon ; Professor 

 Warming, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Copenhagen ; Mr. 

 Morris, of Kew ; Professor C. V. Riley, Entomologist of tlie 

 U.S. Department of Agiiculture ; Professor A. Morgan, and Mr. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell of the Jamaica Institute. Amongst the 

 Club's honorary members figure : Dr. Gunther, Messrs. Oldfield 

 Thomas and A. G. Butler, Professor Warming and Professor 

 Kirby. 



bo great was the encouragement received by the Club, that 

 it was decided to apply to the Editor of the Agricultural 

 Becord asking whether our Papers could be published in the 

 Becord, which Avas the only journal of a scientific nature in the 

 Colony. We regretted at the time that we were denied the 



