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upon to incur any pecuniary risk on its account, and the 
work, therefore, will not be issued unless the names of at 
least One Hundred Subscribers are received. 
In order to place it within the reach of persons of 
moderate means, the price of Subscription is at present 
fixed at the rate of 24 cents a number. 
The Journal will be printed in 8vo., each number ex- 
tending to 24 pages. 
Names of intending Subscribers, and Communications 
will be received by the Secretaries to the Exhibitions’ 
Committee at the Rooms of the Royal Agricultural and 
Commercial Society in Georgetown. 
W. WALKER, 
Chairman of the Executive Committee 
of the Exhibitions’ and Museum Fund. 
2nd June, 1854. 
The first number was issued on the 1st of August, and 
contained papers on Museums, Fibres, and Gum Arabic, 
besides Meteorological observations and notes and queries. 
It was noticed favourably in the Royal Gazette, the 
reviewer saying that “there will, certainly, be little 
patriotism in the community if this attempt is not liberally 
encouraged.” The second part, which came out over 
three months later (Novr. 25), dealt with the impor- 
tance of manures, and the effe& of the Russian war 
on the development of colonial fibres, besides other 
matters. Whether any further issues were put forth is 
doubtful, and, taken altogether, we think it may be 
considered as one of the abortive publications. As the 
Society has no copies of either number it would be de- 
sirable, if any exist, that they be procured. We may 
mention that one of the Secretaries to the Committee 
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