REPORT OF SOCIETY’S MEETINGS. 197 
There were g members present. 
Ele&tions.— Member: Mr. W. H. Parratt. 
Associates; Messrs S. K. Williams, S. A. 
Morgan, H. A Niles, T. Boucher Reid, Frank A. 
Le Gall, Matthias De Souza, W. H. Grimshaw, 
C. H. Moore, Michael Farrahar, H. C. Bayley and 
F. Burke. 
Mr. W. T. Binnie brought forward his motion of which 
due notice had been given, that a Committee be appointed 
to enquire into the possibility of introducing agricultural 
education into primary schools. He believed that educa- 
tion in practical agriculture was essential to the well- 
being of the present cultivator. By its means he would 
be able to get the largest possible return from his land, 
and help to supply the colony with cheaper provisions. 
Mr. Blair laid over a copy of Nicholl’s ‘ Tropical 
Agriculture” which he said was in use as a text-book. 
As the motion was not seconded, it therefore fell through. 
Mr. Hargreaves asked that his motion to have smoking 
allowed in a part of the Reading Room be postponed to 
a fuller meeting, to which no objection was made. 
The following letter from Mr. Quelch, Commissioner 
to the Columbian Exposition was read, as also a similar 
letter to the Government giving an account of his pro- 
gress to March 7th, in preparing for the exhibits, which 
had not then arrived. These were taken for notification. 
British Guiana Commission, 
World's Columbian Exposition, 
Chicago, March 7th, 1893. 
L. M. Hill, Esq., Secretary, 
R. A, and C, Society. 
Dear Sir,—It may have seemed curious to the Society that I have 
not written earlier, but it appeared to me wiser to wait until my arrival 
