The First Two Years of the “ Society.”’ 
By the Editor. 
fy N view of the faét that the 18th of March, 1894, 
m™| will be the fiftieth anniversary of the forma- 
> tion of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial 
ISoticty, a short account of its establishment may beappro- 
_priately presented in this issue of the Society’s Journal. 
_ That it has at least tried to do something for the 
colony, its records and the newspapers of the last 
4 half century show indubitably, while many experi- 
ments which have been tried without good results make 
_ their repetition needless for the future. Unfortunately, 
however, the records of the early years only exist in a 
_ form which is virtually inaccessible except to very few, 
_ and consequently people are apt to think that the Society 
has been sleeping rather than wide awake. It is quite true 
’ that more might have been done to develop the agricultural 
_ resources and commercial interests of the colony, but, 
q , taken as a whole, the Society can look back with pride on 
e - its work of the past, and with hope for that of the future. 
_ By its exertions the colony has been provided with a 
- good museum and library, a reading room with sucha 
 colle€tion of newspapers and magazines as is rarely seen 
even in places of greater importance than Georgetown, 
a journal which records the Society’s proceedings as well 
_as matters of interest connected with the development and 
" resources of the country and its history, and which occupies 
a place which is to some extent at least a scientific and 
_ literary centre. That the Society is not a/together an agri- 
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