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the sugar cane from seeds, a suggestion which was severely 

 criticized at the time. He concluded by saying that Mr. Guppy 

 had always taken a prominent part in literary and scientific 

 associations — he had always shewn himself far in advance < f his 

 time and he could be justly styled the Grand Old Man of 

 Trinidad. 



The toast was enthusiastically received. 



Mr. Guppy responded and thanked Mr. Caracciolo for all 

 the kind things he had said of him. He pointed out that the 

 aim of societies of the. class of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' 

 Club was to get at the truth of everything they enquired into ; 

 after congratulating the Club upon what it had done and jioint- 

 ing out what it might do in the future, he in very graceful and 

 appropriate language proposed the toast of the Club. 



The toast Avas duly honoured, after which the members 

 took their leave in order to catch the evening train fur town 

 having spent an exceedingly pleasant day. 



CLUB PAPERS. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OP THE MAMMALS OF 

 TRINIDAD. 



By Oldfield Thomas, Esq., F.L.S., British 3Iuseim (Natural 



History.) 



The present list is only written to form a basis oii which a 

 complete scientific list of the Mammals inhabiting Trinidad may 

 be founded, and to show members of the Society how extraor- 

 dinary little is definitely known of the mammals of the Island. 

 By knoAvn, of course, I mean scientifically known in the sense 

 of being published to the world, for I have no doubt whatever 

 that many members of the Society could oft'-haud add to the list 

 )nany animals well known to them and other inhabitants, but 

 neither hitherto mentioned in scientific publications nor repre- 

 sented by specimens in the British Museum. 



And even those mentioned have for the most part been 

 determined by observers who were not specialists on the subject, 



