14 The Journal of the Royal 
The Secretary reported that the Book Committee 
had elected Dr. C. J. Gomes as Chairman, and Mr. C. 
H. G. Legge, as Vice-Chairman for the current year. 
The Secretary laid over the Treasurers Financial 
Statement for 1901, which, in accordance with the 
By-Laws, was to be audited by two Directors, and 
brought up at the next meeting. 
The President nominated Hons. Geo. Garnett and 
B. Howell Jones as Auditors. 
The annexed Report of the Fruit Shipment Com- 
mittee was read : — 
''Report of the Special Committee appointed at the 
General Meeting of the Royal Agricultural and Com- 
mercial Society, December 13th, 1900, in accordance 
with the followino^ resolution : 
" ' It is expedient to make an experimental shipment 
of fruit by the Canadian subsidised line of steamers, 
making Georgetown one of their ports of call ; and it is 
desirable that this Society should undertake the experi- 
ment, and should bear the cost of the same ; and a 
small Committee of the Society be appointed to give 
effect thereto.' 
After communicating with the principal Fruit traders 
in Montreal, Halifax and St. John, and having obtained 
particulars from the local agents of the Pickford and 
Black Steamship Co., Ltd., as regards the conditions 
and duration of the voyages of their steamers to 
Canada from this port, it became apparent that, owing 
to the length of the voyage, and in the absence of 
effective artificial means of preserving the freshness of 
