102 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
The author then proceeded to point out several serious 
defects “which existed in the present mode of laying out the 
streets and side drains, and recommended that pipe drains 
be tried to supersede the present incommodious and unhealthy 
open drains, which occupied much of the roadway, and did 
serious damage to vehicles, besides being expensive to con- 
struct and maintain. 
The desirability of completing the wharf extension in front 
of the Bonding warehouses was next alluded to, and it was 
proposed that the line of railway should be continued along 
it and along the shore to Chaguaramas, where a wharf, 
and if necessary, docks, could be constructed. Ships and 
steamers could then land their passengers and cargo direct 
into the railway cars, and thus avoid the trouble, expense, 
and annoyance caused by the increasing shallowness of the 
water near Portofspain, which, it was stated, would probably 
in a few years render the harbour almost useless. 
The paper was illustrated by diagrams and plans showing 
the improvements proposed. 
Wednesday , 27 th June , 1877. 
R. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.G.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 
The following Donations were announced : — 
“Norwegian Catalogue Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876.” 
“ Enumeratio Tnsectorum Norvegieorum.” 
“ Anden Beretning om Ladegaardstens Hovedgaard.” 
“Etudes sur les Mouvements de l’Atmosphere.” 
“ On some remarkable Forms of Animal Life from the 
Deeps of Norway.” “ Windrosen des Siidlichen Norvegens.” 
From the Royal University of Norway. 
