The Journal of the Royal 
Vice-Chair man : Mr. Jas, Gillespie 
for the current year. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded for the fol- 
lowing donations to the Museum :— Two small Otters 
and a Troupial, by Mr. G. S. Jenman ; Seven small Coins» 
by Dr. Anderson ; Twenty-two Photographs, enlarged, of 
Warships, chiefly of the British Navy, by Mr. H. S. 
Laird ; Three Stone Implements, by Mr. H. Christophers. 
With regard to the Photographs, Mr. Quelch said they 
had been framed and hung in the gallery of the Museum 
below twelve others which Mr. Laird presented about 
fifteen or sixteen months ago. They represented a very 
interesting series. 
The President said he was not in a position to give an 
Inaugural Address, but he believed it was generally 
expe6led that the President would say something at the 
first meeting of the year. He was glad to again occupy 
the position and hoped that during his tenure of office 
some little good might be done by promoting Ie6lures, 
holding special meetings, and in other ways to help the 
Colony by furthering its agricultural and commercial 
interests. They all knew that agriculture in the West 
Indies had secured, and was securing, the attention of 
high authorities in England, and that they had an Impe- 
rial Department of Agriculture ably presided over by 
Dr. Morris, who was using his best endeavours to help 
and to show them how to get the best out of the land. 
He had no doubt Dr. Morris would, if he could, show them 
how to get more sugar from their canes, but he could not 
do all they wanted, for that was as impossible as making 
two and two equal five. He trusted that every member 
would be a6luated by an earnest desire to see the agricul- 
