TIMEHRI: 
THE JOURNAL OF 
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETY 
OF BRITISH GUIANA, 
Vot I. JULY, 1911. No. 2. 
FOREWORD, 
The cordial reception given by the reading public of the colony and by our 
correspondents abroad to the revival of Timehri, the historic magazine pub- 
lished by the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, enables the editors to 
face the task of publishing the second number with equanimity. The supply of 
suitable matter has been so great that we have had to hold over many interesting 
and valuable articles until our third number which will appear in time for the 
Christmas mail. Notwithstanding this, the present issue is nearly double the size 
of the original venture and we have reduced the price from sixty to thirty-six 
cents (1s. 6d) in expectation of a greatly increased circulation. 
In the first number I referred to the inexplicable pessimism of the colony which 
distinguishes it so curiously from all the other possessions of the British Crown 
—the settled hopeless expectation of failure for any British Guiana enterprise, 
and I indicated the creation of a tendency to greet the unseen with a cheer as 
the most suitable task of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society. 
Whether any marked success is likely to attend such an effort to further the wel- 
fare of the colony it would be premature to say. Inthe words of Edmund Burke, 
one cannot argue with a prophet : one can only disbelieve him. At all events 
the Edit 1s of Timehri are glad to be in a position to mention that the results 
of the first publication left a considerable balance on theright side of theaccount, 
and the enterprise of the merchants of the colony in providing us with advertise- 
ments justifies the expectation of a substantial increase of this sum, which will be 
used as a reserve to ensure the continued publication of the magazine even during 
any temporary recurrence of those days of financial stress which caused it to 
disappear in 1899. The Directors, moreover, see no reason to anticipate any- 
thin, out a career of increasing usefulness, activity and prosperity for the 
Society. Its total membership is now about 535 and at the date of writing some 
eighty more persons have paid up their subscriptions than there were members, 
associates and lady subscribers at the beginning of the year. Its various Com- 
mittees are active and the Museum authorities are contributing materially to 
the study of our economic pests. Mr. Harold Moore's work in this direction 
has been recognized by an enterprising planting house and he has entered its 
