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the files of 1835, is the bare announcement that it had 
established a Reading Room, on the 18th October in 
that year. Strange to say, a single item only is again 
all that I can gather from the newspapers of the follow- 
ing year, viz :— that on the 10th March, Mr. And 
Galloway, the Secretary, invited the Committee, to- 
gether with such of the ordinary members as might find 
it convenient to attend, to an inspection of some models 
of agricultural implements intended to effect a saving of 
manual labour, the same having been sent out to the 
Society from the patentees in England. As regards 
1837 I fi n d no mention whatever of the Society, and 
only an incidental reference in the journals of 1838. 
This was in the Combined Court (the sittings of the 
Legislature had been thrown open to the public in the 
previous year) during the consideration of a motion to 
grant 21,000 guilders to the' inventor of a steam-plough 
upon its being profitably applied to the agriculture of 
this colony ; and it was stated that the Agricultural 
Society had previously been moving in the matter 
and that subscriptions had been started under its 
auspices among the planting body, but its efforts in this 
direction, the speaker added, seemed to have fallen into 
abeyance. 
BERBICE AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETY. 
The movement inaugurated in the capital on the 
2 1st May, 1833, soon extended to the sister county 
of Berbice. On the 28th December in that year 
Mr. L. Van ROSSUM presided over a gathering held 
in the Colony House, New Amsterdam, at which 
it was resolved to form an Association for the purpose of 
protecting and promoting local interests, a Com- 
