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The Chairman suggested that the press might be asked 
to give publicity to the matter. 
Donation to the Library. — A letter from Government 
Secretary was read forwarding at the request of the 
Governor, for the information of the Society, a volume 
of the Patents and Patentees of the colony of Victoria, 
1880. The thanks of the Society were accorded His 
Excellency. 
Prize Essays on Fibres. — Mr. Russell in a letter for- 
warding cheque for $25 the prize for the Fibre Essay, ex- 
pressed at the request of the donor his great regret that 
more interest was not taken in this branch of the minor in- 
dustries, but hoped that the matter might now occupy 
more attention, after having been prominently brought 
before the public. Printed copies of the essay were 
placed on the table for distribution. 
The Colonial Exhibition. — Extracts from Mr. Walker's 
letters of 24th March and 7th April were read. He had 
had some interviews with Mr. Hawtayne on Exhibition 
matters. Our Commissioner, at the request of Sir Philip 
C. Owen, had been compelled to give up some of the 
space originally allotted to British Guiana at the Indian 
and Colonial Exhibition, but this Mr. Hawtayne thought 
might be no great disadvantage. 
Cattle Farming in Berbice. — Mr. Russell's paper on 
"Water Supply and Cattle Farming on the grand savan- 
nah, Berbice," was read by the Hon. Secretary. The 
paper was chiefly confined to a description of the country 
recently ridden over by Mr. Russell in company with 
Mr. Hutchens, Colonial Civil Engineer and Mr. M. B. 
Jamieson, District Engineer, during two days last month, 
and to the immense herds of fine cattle found grazing on 
