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President who belongs to neither of these bodies, and 
hence is not cognisant of theirrequirements. (‘‘ No, no,”) 
At the same time it does not seem to be generally 
recognised in the colony that the details of the agricul- 
cultural questions which crop up here from time to time 
are, as a rule, fully discussed at the monthly meetings of 
the Agricultural Committee of the Society, and that 
much useful, though quiet, work is there carried on. 
The programme for the year, as indicated in the 
short address I delivered in January last, has not been 
carried out in its entirety. I have failed to obtain ad- 
dresses or papers from members who are well qualified 
to prepare and deliver them. 
The Royal West India Commission visited the colony 
soon after our January meeting, and two special meet- 
ings of the Society resulted therefrom. At the’ first 
Dr. Morris, who accompanied the Commissioners as 
scientific botanical expert, delivered an address dealing 
with the possible agricultural produéts of the colony 
other than sugar. The le¢éture was an able summary of 
facts, the majority of which were already well known, 
and, to my mind, the value of the meeting depended 
largely upon the expressions of practical experience on, 
in several instances, large scales, which fell from the later 
speakers. A valuable and possibly somewhat novel sug- 
gestion was made by one of the speakers—the cultivation 
of ground nuts, but strangely this has not been foilowed 
up by either local or foreign capitalists. On the whole 
the meeting appears to have had but little effect on the 
present or future industrial pursuits of the colony. 
The later meeting was the one recently held in this 
hall in conjunétion with the Chamber of Commerce and 
