REPORT OF SOCIETY'S MEETINGS. 175 
_ say the Society maintained a large semi-public library, 
and a good museum, and might add, took an intermittent 
interest in agriculture and kindred subjeéts, and pub- 
lished a journal called Zimehri. If they were asked 
_ whether the Scciety was fully and adequately discharg- 
Ag ‘ing the funétions entrusted to it by the Ordinance of 
Incorporation could they say, yes? He would suggest 
that, before answering they should turn to the Ordi- 
nance of Incorporation and see what were the objets 
of the Society. It was there stated that these were “to 
E promote as far as possible the improvement and en- 
 couragement of the agriculture of the colony, and of 
_ every branch of industry whereby the resources of the 
oe colony are likely to be developed and increased,” as also 
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the colleéting and disseminating of useful information on 
such subjects. He would also refer them to bye-law 2, 
Chapter 1X, which said that the Book Committee should 
_ purchase more especially works relating to agriculture, 
- commerce, and the staple produétions of the colony. 
_ There was nothing about entertaining works of travel and 
«fi€tion. . 
_ He had clearly laid down before them the principal 
_ objeéts for which the Society was established, and 
he put it to them whether the time had not come for 
them to fairly ask themselves whether they were in 
spirit carrying them out. They were charged by the 
_ Ordinance and bye-laws with the fostering of all colonial 
_ industries. They must admit that, so far, they had failed 
@..to satisfy two or three of these. One had been taken 
“away from them—Commerce—which occupied the 
second place in the title as well as the bye--laws. It had 
not been put forward so prominently as agriculture, with 
