406 TIMEHRI. 
After some further discussion the matter was left to 
the decision of the Commercial Committee, 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the Go- 
vernment for copies of Surgeon-Major Comins’ Notes on 
Emigration from India to British Guiana, Trinidad, 
Jamaica and St. Lucia. 
The President said that the next item on the agenda 
was put down as the “ President’s valedi€tory address,” 
and he believed it was usual for that officer to say a 
few words by way of commentary upon the proceedings 
of the Society during his term of office before vacating 
the chair. 
The usual meetings had been held during the fear, 
one falling through for want of a quorum, when some- 
thing happened to prevent the members attending. 
Once or twice also he had been unable to attend on 
account of Militia duties, when he had to thank the 
Vice-President for taking his place. Various questions 
of interest had been discussed at these meetings, among 
others being the definition of * political” as applied in 
the Society’s bye-laws. He thought that even if political 
discussion had been allowed it would not have risen to 
any great height, but probably it was better that it should 
be excluded. Cattle disease on the East Coast had been 
reported to the Society and the matter referred to 
the Government, but he believed it had afterwards 
turned out to be not of such importance as on a former 
occasion. Attention had been called to agricultural 
education through a motion by Mr. Binnie, who was 
desirous of introducing it into primary schools. The 
question of the working of the Adulteration Ordi- 
nance was also brought up and a resolution passed and 
