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privilege on tlii.^ plea tliat the Record was purely au agricultural 

 paper. This Avas our first disappointment, but we have since 

 been very glad that the h'erord's pages were closed to us, as it 

 has manifested the fact that the Club was one of the hardiest of 

 the institutions of this Colony. At the very next meeting we 

 decided vipon publishing our oavu journal. Accordingly the 

 first number appeared in the month of April, the second in June, 

 the third this month, the second and third appearing with illus- 

 trations. On the first number our critics, with the exception 

 of an anonymous one, complimented us on oiir venture. Our 

 second number contained our draft report of the small sugar-cane 

 borer (XijJehorns perfurans) which I before referred to, Avith 

 an illustration of the Inca, an insect Ave have adopted as the 

 typical one of our Club, Avith a motto, Natura maxime miranda 

 in minimis. 



Our second issue of the Journal circulated 2o0 copies and 

 the third 350. I may mention that in accordance Avith the 

 desire expressed by the members I had arranged to propose to 

 the Committee of the Victoria Institute that the section of 

 Natural History, comprising Zoology in general, should be given 

 in charge to the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, Avho Avere 

 Avilling to place their collections in the Imilding of the Institute 

 and go on increasing them, forming complete collections of all 

 the mammals, reptiles and insects of the Colony ; but as the 

 Building is not yet taken over, I have not had an opportunity 

 of moving in the matter. I think that the large collections Ave 

 have in hand already and the means Ave have to increase them 

 Avould be a guarantee to the Committee that in a very short time 

 the Colony Avould possess a pretty good representative collection. 



I think the Club may congratulate itself upon the fact that 

 it is paying its Avay through the esprit de corps of the members, 

 Avho not only[subscribe to the Club funds, but also pay for their 

 copies of the Journal. 



NoAV, gentlemen, Ave are not without cause Avhen Ave say Ave 

 are proud of the Avoi-k avc have done ; not because v:e pretend to 

 have produced worlc of high scientific value, but because it has 

 been the first of the kind undertaken on a similar basis ; and 

 Avithout being presximptuous Ave hope that this Club will be of 

 great service to science and of very great benefit to agriculturists 

 and the country generally. We have every reason to congratu- 

 late ourselves on the success and continued progress of the Club, 

 butitisAvell to bear in mind that wc have many difficulties still 

 to overcome, so distant are A\e from the scientific world. It 

 Avill therefore be necessary to struggle on and on until Ave can 

 accumulate that amount of knOAvledge necessary to create a 

 position for ourselves. It is to be hoped that Ave will receive, 



