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President who belongs to neither of these bodies, and 

 hence is not cognisant of their requirements. (" 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 products of the colony 

 other than sugar. The lecture 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 followed 

 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 conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce and 



