144 Timehri. 



Prof. L. S. Austin read a paper on Economies of Gold Mining. His 

 Excellency the Governor spoke of the value of the paper and the President 

 called attention to the difficulties of gold-mining. A hearty vote of thanks 

 was unanimously accorded. 



Meeting, July 30th, 1913. Elections reported. — Members. — Rev. D. 

 Duffus, Messrs. Michael A. Esch, and C. K. Bancroft ; Associates. — 

 Messrs. F. J. de Freitas, H. S. Cox. A. Mitchell, A. G. Bowers and H. P. 

 Weber ; Lady Subscribers. — Misses Clara Smith, Effie Xewsam and E. 

 Fernandes. 



The Vice-President (Hon. J. J. Xunan) spoke of the services to the 

 colony of Sir Charles Cox, and of his intention to have that gentleman 

 proposed as an Honorary Member. 



Mr. Nunan said ; 



" Last July, when Sir Charles Cox who had been Vice-Patron of this 

 Societj^ duriDg the eleven months of his last acting regime as Governor 

 was going on leave the fourteen directors of this Societ}r presented him 

 with an address of which a framed copy now hangs over the principal 

 entrance. Part of it read as follows : 



' The members of the Society have fully recognised the unassuming 

 devotion to public duty, the unobtrusive industry, the well-balanced 

 judgment and the marked administrative capacity which you have 

 brought to the problems of Government. Of such problems you have 

 had your full share and we feel that the colony owes a great deal to your 

 wise and effective administration in 1906 and in 1911-12, periods of 

 trial which are fortunately infrequent. 



1 The catalogue of your services would be a long one and we are 

 confident that as the years pass their permanency will cause them to be 

 appreciated more and more. We rejoice that they should have been 

 rendered by one who, a West Indian born, has been brought up from 

 his school days here in our midst, who enjoys the individual respect and 

 regard of all our citizens, and whose success furnishes an example and 

 an incentive to every member of the Colonial Civil Service. 



' We can only conclude by wishing you and Mrs. Cox a pleasant 

 voyage to the Mother Country, an enjoyable holiday after having so long 

 and so creditably borne the burden and heat of an administrative 

 interregnum, and a safe return to the colony, which looks to you for 

 many further years of such services as can only be performed by one of 

 your mature experience and of your profound acquaintance with its 

 needs.' 



Unfortunately, the colony is losing him at a time when it can least 

 afford to forego the services we had hoped for. But the doctors have 

 told him that a further struggle to render them, for the struggle was 

 valiantly made, would mean his death-warrant. We are sorry to see 

 him go and feel it as a personal loss. He was a strict observer of the 

 constitutional rights of the citizens of this colony, both in the letter and 



