Report of Meetings of the Society. 
Meeting held on the 12th Fanuary.—Hon. Dr. Car- : 
rington, C.M.G., President, in the chair. 
There were 33 members present. 
EleGtions.—Members: Messrs. H. Lawrence, F. 
Thorne, A. J. Haggin, W. J. Kenswell, and E. P. 
Wood, Dr. J. H. Conyers, Revds. F. P. Roth and A. 
Jemmott, and Capt. Shaw. 
Associates: Messrs, A. A. Ridley, T. F. 
Burrowes, E. G. Bagot, J. J. Crombie, R. F. Jardin 
W.S. Cook and W. F. Bye. 
The President said that as he understood it was usual 
for the newly-ele€ted Chairman to give an outline or 
programme of what was intended during the coming 
year, he would, with their permission, follow that custom. 
He would again thank them for the honour they had done 
him in eleéting him President and again state that his 
acquaintance with agriculture was somewhat limited. In 
his boyhood days he took a great interest in that sub- 
je€&t, and as a young man had gone riding round estates 
with the old sugar planter of Barbados, Mr. George 
Pitcher, with whom, no doubt many there present were 
acquainted, and watched the primitive process of making 
sugar. Ever since those days he had continued to feel a 
very a€tive interest in all matters conneéted with agri- 
culture, and although wanting in experience of the subjeét 
in this colony, he hoped they would believe him to be 
still interested in it. 
He proposed to divide his remarks under two heads ; 
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