Foreword. lil. 
together with the preceding paper brings us into intimate acquaint- 
ance with the Mission work carried on by their communion in this 
partially opened up area of the Esseyuebo Province. 
Dr. Godfrey’s iaddress on ** Village Administration and Local Goy- 
ernment ~ was, it will be remembered, delivered to the Society on Septem- 
ber 18th, of this year. The comprehensive review of the history of local 
administration will be found an important contribution of data for the 
statesman or student of questions aftecting the amelioration and im- 
provement of the condition of the peasant population of the colony. 
Than Dr. Godfrey no one is better equipped to speak on this subject 
to which he has devoted both time and earnest ettort for many years. 
“Some Graves of the Colony” by Mr. McTurk embodies the 
painstaking labour of many a journey to abandoned sites of old-time 
habitation and has the value which attaches to accurate records of 
monuments which furnish the raw material of history. 
In lighter vein by Mr. R. P. Stewart, the artless log of a short 
holiday trip * To Paradise ~ gives lively glimpses of stream, forest and 
savannah on the Berbice Rio, Wikki and Ituni Creeks, as seen by an alert 
eye in this year of grace 1912; a diary of who knows what value to 
future travellers thitherward. 
“St. Georges Cathedral” is the subject of a sketch by Dean 
Sloman, and just now while the fabric is undergoing reconstruction is a 
timely notice of an interesting building; Mr. A. A. Thorne contributes 
his views on “ British Guianese Progress and Limitations.” Mr. A. D. 
Ferguson, Honorary Secretary of the b.G. Philatelic Society, gives our 
readers the benetit of his life-long study of the Early Postage Stamps 
of British Guiana.” In * Lime-Growing on Clay Soils” Mr. Edgar 
Beckett contributes some results of his unique experience in the citrus 
branch of those planting industries which have in the old bad past been 
regarded as “minor.” Mr. Harold W. B. Moore, from his store of 
accurate and painstaking observations of insect life in the colony, gives a 
further contribution on the ** Ways and Habits of Butterflies and Moths,” 
and in the same department a further instalment of Mr. P. Cameron’s 
determinations of the Hymenoptera of Guiana continues the first study 
of a sort at all adequate or exhaustive of an order of insect life in which 
the colony so richly abounds. It cannot be considered inconsistent with 
the plan of such a journal as 7imehii that a large space has been given 
in its pages to this work, and if the revelation of our riches in one order 
attracts the attention of scientific euquirers to other orders, Mr. Cameron’s 
work will have a value apart from its intrinsic worth as a stimulus to the 
exploration of practically unexploited mines of knowledge. 
THe MUSEUM. 
For some months the Museum Committee has been engaged in 
considering steps for the improvement and better display of the 
Natural History collection. The Rubber and Balata case has been 
