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far as possible, with the Agricultural Board from which through its learned 
head, Professor Harrison, the officers of the Museum have at all times received 
kindness, courtesy and assistance. 
Much has already been done in the collection of entomological, zoological and 
botanical specimens. The life history of nearly all the pests prevalent in the 
colony can be traced but the advice of a recent friendly writer as to offering 
short notes explaining how to recognise and above all to destroy them remains 
yet to be taken. The various balata and rubber firms have also promised to 
help us in providing a large case illustrating in the most complete manner with 
photographs and specimens all the processes of those industries. It will be for 
the committee to see that promise carried into practical effect and to secure simi- 
lar assistance from the sugar, rice, mining, timber, and other concerns. 
I may mention that the officers of the Lands and Mines Department have 
offered their cordial co-operation, which will be invaluable towards this end. 
With improved funds the Museum should play a most important part in the 
agricultural education of the colony. 
Maps. 
For the Agricultural Committee I may begin by directing their attention to 
the urgent necessity for the provision of complete and reliable maps of the 
colony. In that respect this is the most backward of British communities. 
Private enterprise has produced very attractive pocket maps like those of the 
*« Argosy ” and ‘“ Chronicle ” publishing houses, highly creditable to both firms, 
but they do not pretend to be more than a general indication, and the explorer 
or miner or forest-ranger could not trust himself to any of our present produc- 
tions. The older maps are vain as a dream from the ivory gate. A proper carto- 
graphical survey of the colony remains to be made, and this will cost money, 
which the citizens must be prepared to spend for such an indispensable 
requirement. Recent bad times has caused all progress in this respect to be 
stopped, a ruinous form of economy on the part of the Combined Court in view 
of the fact that our chief asset is the forest and land which are thus allowed to 
remain partly shrouded ina pallof mystery. The Gove nment geological map 
stops with the northern part of thecolony, and it is for the Agricultural 
Committee to emphasise the necessity of completing it even if money has to be 
borrowed for the purpose. The Lands and Mines Department have done excel- 
lent work with very small resources but to expect it to issue even plane table 
maps without a suitable surveying staff and funds to pay it, is to expect bricks 
without either clay or straw. Maps of the colony and of all South America 
should be readily procurable here at a cheap rate. They should be in every 
Government and private office and in every home. If this were done the 
problem of the interior would come from the realm of myth to that of ascertain- 
able fact. 
TRADE AND Tourist POSSIBILITIES. 
In a question closely connected with this, the Commercial Committee is more 
immediately interested, viz., that of our intercourse with adjoining countries, 
