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ciated with previous issues of Timehri. He deals with his special s udy of inseet 
pests in the investigation of which he is re-visiting the colony ; of Mr. F. A. 
Stockdale, Assistant Director of Science and Agriculture and Government 
Botanist, and of Mr. Beckett, manager of the experimental farm of Messrs. 8. 
Davson & Co., Ltd., both of whom deal with the engrossing subject of 
rubber ; of Rev Mr. Aiken who has deserted his favourite study of mos- 
quitoes, in which he has made a high reputation as an investigator, for a 
tour de force on the subject of ‘* Mahogany ”’; of the Hon. Sir T. Crossley 
Rayner, Attorney General, who describes his recent visit to the Kaieteur Falls. 
The papers by Mr. Luke Hill on the “ Street Names of Georgetown ” and of 
Mr. J. Rodway on the “ River and Plantation Names,” which have been read 
before the Society, are of permanent interest and value, and the similar paper 
of Dr. Roth will show that the manners and customs of the native Indians are 
receiving careful study. 
We hope that at the close of the present year the directors will be in a position 
to repeat the statement of the original committee on its second anniversary that 
* nothing in the interval had taken place more worthy of notice or more deserving 
of being ‘esteemed as a harbinger of good than the activity and increased energy 
with which everything bearing on the i improvement of the agriculture, manufac- 
tures and commerce of the colony was entertained and discussed. In producing 
that change the Society might with justice pride itself on having been to a con- 
siderable extent instrumental, and the Committee hoped that this spirit of 
enterprise and unanimity would spread until measures of great and decided 
improvement should be worked out and the resources of the colony largely 
developed.” 
At the second anniversary dinner on the 18th March, 1846, at which His Ex- 
cellency Governor Light was present, the Hon. I. F. Young, then Government 
Secretary, speaking of the work of the Society, concluded withan eloquence and 
optimism no longer in fashion : 
“ Gentlemen ! from these circumstances alone I think we may augur favourably 
of the development of the resources of the colony and I trust | am using no 
hyperbolical language when I say that I believe we shall cast our old prejudices 
into the cauldron of the laboratory and that thence Medea-like they will emerge 
in new forms of youth, beauty, strength and profit, which will make this colony 
like a giant refreshed and strong, prepared to run its course rejoicingly before 
the eyes of the world. From the union of science with practice which have been 
too long divorced, there must be, I predict, an issue prolific of benefit to agrieul- 
ture.’ > “And, we might add of benefit to every other branch of the community's 
operations, legal, commercial, literary and executive. It would be well however if 
a little of the Hon. E. F. Young's desire to greet the unseen with a cheer should 
again inspire these activities. The task of providing such an inspiration should 
be the most important duty of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society. 
JosepH J. NUNAN, 
Hon. Secretary and Joint Hditor. 
