6 Timehri. 
which he is head of the department of Invertebrate Zoology, cutting a kind of 
biological traverse to that great plateau of some ten thousand feet elevation, 
which represents the oldest land in South America East of the Andes. The 
expedition has been fruitful in scientific results and has been memorable in the 
history of the Society for the keen interest which Professor Crampton and 
his colleague, Dr. Lutz, have ever since taken in its fortunes, and in that of 
Timehri. Dr. Lutz is also represented in this number by a paper on String 
Figures to which Dr. Roth has already devoted some attention. 
Judge Hewick’s article, Our People, which attracted much attention in our 
December issue, is replied to by Mr. J. 8S. McArthur, of the British Guiana Bar, 
whose acquaintance with the African creole is unequalled. The pages of 
Timehri know no distinction of race, colour, creed, class or political opinion. 
Subject to its primary intention of encouraging scientific enquiry, its object 
is to create and foster public opinion in the colony, while recognising that it 
may fall short of the further goal of one of the most influential of the world’s 
journalists, of which it does not quite despair, viz., of making the public opinion 
racy of the soil. As the views expressed in the articles referred to, as well 
as in some of our other papers, raise controversial questions, it need hardly be 
emphasized that no responsibility is taken for what is expressed in signed 
articles and least of all for political opinions. As regards this particular sub- 
ject there are few thoughtful men who consider that the obligations incurred 
by the community to the African race in this colony were discharged by its 
liberation. There are few who are quite satisfied with the attempts made to 
fulfil them since that eventful year. There is still a debt to pay. Fortu- 
nately racial as well as 1eligious trouble has been less acute here than anywhere 
else in the world and the African creole, still forming the bulk of the popula- 
tion, kas always shown himself responsive to the calls of the common life of 
citizenship. The new constructive policy is certain to contribute to his 
advancement in education, discipline, morality and material wealth as much 
as to that of any other class of our people. For the hinterland he will still 
be found the best as he has hitherto been found almost the only pioneer. 
The Most Rev. Dr. Galton, Bishop of Petenissus, the head of the Roman 
Catholic body in the colony, has favoured us with his views on education. 
Mr. A. A. Thorne, late Member of the Combined Court, concludes his article 
on the same subject from the secularist standpoint. A Member of the Railway 
Joint Committee, in Railways : Ten Years After, reviews the Railway Question 
to date in a manner which is certain to arouse discussion, and perhaps May 
excite criticism by its directness. Without favouring any particular scheme 
the writer pleads for an abandonment of a priori opinions and asks for the 
adoption of such a policy of general railway advance as may be found to 
be within the means of the colony after full financial investigation. The 
colony, he asserts, is not stripped for action in its struggle for existence. 
The suggestion of reprinting the Society’s railway debate of 1902 has been 
adopted. Our pages are open to further contributions on the subject from 
the same or from other standpoints. 
Mr. Registrar Dalton takes up the cudgels on behalf of Roman-Dutch law, 
with which he has had an early acquaintance during his service as a Magistrate 
