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the Colonies has intimated to this Government that the 
Trustees of the British Museum have decided to present 
to the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society a 
copy of the General Catalogue of the books in its 
Library, and that the Crown Agents have been 
instructed to make the necessary arrangements for 
transmission of the Volumes to your Society when 
received. 
2. Mr. Chamberlain adds that the presentation is 
made on the understanding that if, at any future time, 
the Library of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial 
Society should cease to exist, the Catalogue is to be 
returned to this Government to be held in trust for 
any similar institution that may subsequently be formed. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
J. HAMPDEN KING. 
The Secretary, 
The Royal Agricultural and 
Commercial Society. 
It' was agreed that the best thanks of the Society 
should be accorded for this valuable donation. 
The thanks of the Society were also accorded for the 
following donations : — 
To the Library, from 
Richard Evans, Shipley and MacBride's Zoology. 
Imperial Department of Agriculture, 25 bee-keeping 
in West Indies, 2 parts Sugar Cane Experiments 
in the Leeward Islands and West Indian 
Bulletin No. 3, Vol. 2. 
To the Museum, from 
T. Wardle, Strata from well-boring and diagram 
of same. 
The meeting then terminated. 
