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In reply to a question of the Hon. N. D. Davis, the 
President said he thought this would come within the 
province of the Society as encouragement to agriculture. 
He might mention that the Chairman of the Committee 
of the Fund was the Duke of Westminster, who was 
also the President of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England. 
Mr. Binnie spoke in favour of the contribution, and no 
one dissenting, it was agreed to carry out the recom- 
mendation. 
The President said before they proceeded farther he 
might mention that it would be a graceful compliment 
to make Sir John Lawes an Honorary Member of the 
Society. Under the rules this could be done on a 
recommendation of the Dire€tors which might be made 
before the next meeting. 
The annexed letter from Mr. Quelch, the colony’s 
Commissioner to Chicago was referred to the Columbian 
Exposition Committee. 
British Guiana Seétion, Agricultural Building, 
World’s Columbian Exposition, 
Chicago, IIl,, June 8th, 1893. 
L. M. Hill, Esq., 
Secty., R. A. & C. Society. 
Dear Sir,—My former letters, and those that Mr. Watt has written to 
the papers, will have given you all in Guiana, a fairly complete account 
of matters in connection with our Exhibit, up to the present time. I 
mention now a few matters that need consideration ; and | want, to one or 
two of them, as early an answer as possible—by the return of this same 
steamer (the ‘* Tjomo”) if you can manage it. The first thing for 
notice is the question of the Handbook. In my last I told you (letter to 
Mr. Rodway) that most likely it would be impossible to sell our cata- 
logues or any printed matter in the Exhibition. As it turns out, any 
such matter may be given away, but not sold, unless we sell through 
the publishers of the Official Catalogues, who have a concession from 
