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' opportunity of seeing the slides illustrating Sir Crossley Rayner ’s trip to Kaieteur 
which he has prepared for the Society’s benefit with great labour and care during 
the evenings of several months past. We can only show our appreciation of the 
learned Attorney-General’s kindness and public spirit by providing an overflow- 
ing house at Monday’s conversazione at what is certain to be a most 
instructive demonstration of the colony’s possibilities froma scenic and 
commercial standpoint. The Hon. C. T. Cox, Government Secretary, will 
preside. In future the lantern lectures will occur at more frequent intervals. 
I am glad to be able to lay on the table the first number of the revived 
“ Timehri,” the historic journal of the Society. You will note its new attrac- 
tions in cover, paper, printing and illustrations. In the contents we may not 
be able to equal the achievements of the giants of an elder time, but you will 
note that Mr. J. J. Quelch, the former curator and editor, has not renounced his 
old allegiance, and that we publish papers by Mr. Luke Hill and Mr. Rodway. 
With Mr. Hill neither the Society nor “ Timehri”’ will consent to lose touch, 
and as Honorary and Corresponding Member he will keep us informed of the 
larger life of the mother countries. 
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS. 
On the scientific side, the Society has been not unfruitful and several learned 
papers were read at the general meetings and many serious subjects discussed. 
Amongst other events, the Agricultural Committee considered the Polders Bill 
and the Commercial Committee nominated Mr. Delafons as its representative 
at Barbados to the Mail Conference. As you are all aware, the Conference was 
largely instrumental in the restoration of a direct mail service with Great Britain, 
the headquarters of our business firms, and to which we are bound to look for 
capital and fresh blood for many years tocome. Any assistance which the mem- 
bers and officers of the Society have been able to give to the furtherance of com- 
mercial preference and other interourse with Canada has likewise been freely 
given. The officers of the Society have also been active in connection with the 
proposed Agricultural Conference in which the Hon. B. Howell Jones and the 
President will represent us. This will now take place in August, and the Society 
will receive it with a conversazione and with lantern lectures on rubber-growing 
in the Hast and West by Dr. Cramer of Surinam and Mr. Stockdale of the Agri- 
cultural Department. No doubt a further attractive and instructive progiamme 
to illustrate the colony’s scenic and commercial possibilities will also be arrang- 
ed in the interval. We had hoped that the projected visit of a large body of 
Canadian merchants would occur about this time but this also has been 
postponed. Should it occur later no doubt we shall be in a position to receive 
them here with the characteristic hospitality of the ancient colony. 
THe Liprary. 
In regard to the literary work of the Society, the Book Committee has been 
busy as becomes a department which is mainly responsible for the survival of the 
Society through the vicissitudes of sixty-seven years, and the lassitude and mental 
inertia which are supposed to be inseparable from a tropical climate, Several 
