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way, but no answer was vouchsafed to our application. 
I subsequently learnt, indirectly, that the grant was 
intended to be included in the vote of money granted to 
the Board of Agriculture for exhibition purposes, but 
no communication whatever on the subject was made to 
the Society, either by the Government or the Board of 
Agriculture. Personally, I believe that smaller agricul- 
tural exhibitions held in country districts, promoted or 
assisted by the Board of Agriculture as done this year, 
will effect more practical good for the farmers of the 
colony generally, than is possible with a mere Horticul- 
tural Show in Georgetown, where perhaps a more 
comprehensive and central exhibition might be held by 
the Agricultural Board, say every three or four years, 
bringing together from all parts of the Colony the 
results of the improvements effected by the educational 
training of the district shows. 
The Fishery Commission appointed by the Society 
last year, has, under the chairmanship of Mr. T. S. 
Hargreaves, held a few meetings and collected together 
some information bearing on the varieties and locations 
of the several fishes to be found in and around the 
colony, their habits, breeding seasons, etc., and have 
procured the use of the Governor's fish-pond near the 
sea front, for experimental purposes. The information 
so obtained will, I trust, be communicated in some 
concrete form to the Society later on ; and in the mean- 
time Dr. Evans, Curator of the Society's Museum, and 
a member of the committee, has been re-arranging and 
classifying the large collection of local fish specimens in 
the Museum, so as to render the collection more inter- 
esting and instructive. 
