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Geological section. He was Literary editor of this Journal for some 

 time, and though not a writer was very helpful in many ways. Mr. Frank 

 Fowler was a useful member for many years and served on Committees. 

 Mr. C. W. Anderson was one who could not be well spared, because he 

 was working to identify the botanical sources of our timber trees. Mr. 

 John Williams will be much missed at our Lantern Lectures for he was 

 always ready to oblige the Society. We have had to thank him on many 

 occasions for his good photographic work some of which has been used 

 in this journal. Mr. K. G. Duncan retired from the colony and died in 

 England; he had been very prominent as a sugar planter and was Presi- 

 dent of the Society as well as a member of Committees. While President 

 he read a £>aper on the " Cost of Sugar Production " (Timehri, 1894 p. 114) 

 which was considered of much value. 



An addition to our Bird, Fauna — Through the kindness of Mr. W. 

 Mearns of " Hope 1 ' the museum has received a head of a male Sarcidiornis 

 carunculata, a rather curious duck, which seems to be somewhat rare though 

 it has been recorded from the mouths of the Amazon down to the Argen- 

 tine. The male has a wattle or comb on its bill, which is most con- 

 spicuous at the breeding season ; this character is peculiar to the genus, 

 but is absent from the female, which is smaller. As far as I can find it has 

 not been recorded from Surinam or British Guiana but there is mention of 

 it in Cayenne, 



