An Editor's Prologue. 
we here earnestly entreat all those who can, to come for- 
ward and tell, through our pages, the history of the 
colony in all its aspects, — industrial, scientific and his- 
toric. A certain very learned and very conceited head 
of an Oxford College, was recently represented as having 
exclaimed : — 
" I am the Master of the College, 
What I don't know isn't knowledge." 
Here in this colony, where there are so many matters 
never yet recorded, and where there are so many indi- 
viduals with special knowledge, each of 'some particular 
subject, let each of these specialists remember that what 
he does know is often not knowledge to any but himself, 
and let him set the same down on paper as nicely as he 
can and send it to us, that we may impart it to his fellow- 
colonists. 
We are reminded that we still have to account for our 
name. 
It was at first intended to call our publication simply 
(( The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial 
Society of British Guiana." But there were several ob- 
jections to that. In the first place that title is inconvenient 
as being more than one mouthful for one man, as was the 
title of a Society with which we were once acquainted 
called " The West Kelso Branch of the United Presbyte- 
rian Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society." And in 
the second place, though here in Guiana we have by use 
got reconciled to the fact that our Society, though calling 
itself an Agricultural and Commercial Society, has, what- 
ever it ought to have, very little to do with agriculture and 
still less with commerce, yet the real nature of our Asso= 
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