T4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION;. 
Mr. E. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.G.S.- — Catalogue of the 
Land and Freshwater Mollusea of Trinidad. 
Idem. — Note on the Earthquake of 26 Sept., 1866. 
The Hon. F. Coding, M.D. — On the Petroleum and the 
Manjack of Barbados. 
The Association is to be congratulated on the completion 
of the First Part of the Bibliography of Trinidad, which has 
appeared in the proceedings, and which cannot fail to be of 
great use to those in any way interested in the Colony. 
One of our members having volunteered to give us a state- 
ment of the progress and condition of Science here, it is. 
therefore unnecessary for me to extend this report to the 
subject. 
HENEY F. J. GUPPY, 
Secretary 8f Treasurer . 
The following communications were read : — 
1. Remarks on the Cultivation of Scientific Knowledge in Trini- 
dad. By E. J. Lechmere Guppy, Esq., F.G.S. 
The progress of Science within the last few decennia has 
been so great and so irresistible that I feel sure that I shall 
have the indulgence of the Association in beginning this 
communication, intended in some sort as a supplement to 
our Secretary’s Eeport for the past year, with some remarks 
drawn from the Works of one or two of the leading thinkers 
of the present day, whose inquiries serve to point out the 
direction in which Knowledge is tending. 
The great distinction between man and brute is the pos- 
session by the former of the means and the ability to accu- 
mulate and classify Knowledge. Simple Knowledge is that 
slowly organized classification of elementary experiences 
forced upon man by his helpless state at his entrance into 
the world. But the preservation of his daily existence de- 
