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service, but we are glad to say that like Mr. Quelch he remains in touch with 
the Museum. The Society is expending some fifteen hundred dollars in im- 
provements and has engaged a Lady Assistant Librarian. It looks confidently 
forward to the inauguration of a substantial reserve fund within the present 
year. In the Society at least pessimism has no place. 
The Directors have asked Rev. Mr. Aiken and Mr. George Mackenzie to assist 
he Editors in the preparation of this and future numbers, acting as Scientific and 
Literary Assistant Editors respectively. Both gentlemen are very busy men but 
have readily placed their services at the disposal of the magazine, thus enabling 
us to form an editorial committee which should be in touch with every phase of 
scientific, economic and literary activity in the colony. Mr. Mackenzie is at 
present one of the editorial staff of the Dazly Chronicle and is the cadet of a 
Scottish family which seems destined to leave its mark on the modern literature 
of Scotland, notably in the line of historical research. He has shown particular 
interest in economic questions in the colony. Rey. Mr. Aiken’s scientific attain- 
ments are well known in the West Indies, and New Amsterdam has reason to 
lament the disappearance of his able pen from the journalism of the Ancient 
County. Its loss, however, means the gain of the colony as a whole. He 
has even managed to find time for a valuable article on British Guiana 
mosquitoes in the preseut number. Readers of Sir Rubert Boyce’s Health 
and Administration in the West Indies will remember the tribute paid by 
that great authority to the worth of Rev. Mr. Aiken’s studies on this 
subject. 
The scientific side of the magazine is the especial province of my learned col- 
league, Mr. J. Rodway, F.L.S., Librarian and Assistant Secretary, who is also 
Curator of the Society’s Museum. The enlarged membership and widened activi- 
ties of the Society have imposed a considerable increase of work upon Mr. Rodway 
but he has faced the task of editing Timehri with the same energy with which his 
other duties are performed, and in addition contributes to this issue an article 
on his own pet subject. Scientific articles are also contributed by Dr. Ozzard, 
(Government Medical Officer and for some time Resident Surgeon, Georgetown 
Public Hospital), Mr. Edgar Beckett and Mr. Cameron which should attract 
widespread attention. The absence of Mr. Stockdale in London and the 
recent pressure of special work in preparing pamphlets on our local indus- 
tries have deprived us of contributions from the department so ably presided 
over by Professor Harrison but they have been promised for the Christmas 
number. 
Amongst articles of more general interest are those of Mr. George Bayley 
(Census Commissioner) on the lighter side of the recent census of the colony; 
of Mr. Cruickshank on the interesting subject of Negro Dialects ; and of Messrs. 
Cole and Humphrys on their respective hunting experiences. Mr. Humphrys is 
a very young contributor but his article reveals powers of observation 
which it is an object of this publication to encourage among the rising 
generation in the colony and which should be especially useful in Mr. 
Humphrys’ work as an Officer of the Lands and Mines Department. We 
trust that he will have many emulators among those of his own age and that 
