Report of Society's Meetings. hi 
In reply to a question of the President, Mr. Jones 
said that the British Guiana gold-diggers did not use 
farine, and Mr. Hargreaves said they would reje6l the 
best food in favour of such things as they liked. 
The Secretary informed the meeting that at the request 
of the local branch of the Navy League the Dire6lors 
had agreed to decorate the buildings of the Society as 
far as was pra6licable on Trafalgar Day. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. 
Walter Bagot, for a Miniature Painting of the late Mr. R. 
W. Imlach ; and to the persons named for the following 
donations to the Museum : — Foetus of Deer by G. S. Jen- 
man ; 2 Bats by Master H. G. Lord ; 2 Fishes by M. N. 
D. Menzies; Live Owl by H. C. Swan ; Duck by L. Col- 
vin ; Cotton Bird by J. B. Harrison ; Utrecht Token 
by Archdeacon Gwyther. 
The meeting then terminated. 
Meeting held 8th December^ iSg8. — Mr. R. G. Duncan, 
President, in the chair. 
Members present 25. 
Ele6lions. — Members : Messrs. S. T. Hassell, E. Gordon 
and S. Creek. 
Associates : Messrs. F. Agard, W. Hodg- 
son, M. B. Beach, A. E. Craig and E. C. Collier. 
The Secretary reported that the yams and tannias 
expe6led from the Pomeroon, had not arrived, and there- 
fore could not be shipped. In this conne6lion he read 
the annexed extra6l from a letter from Mr. J. Gardner 
Austin, Barbados, to the Hon. B. Howell Jones : — 
*' We have no fruit or vegetable trade with either 
England or America. The few parcels which go are 
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