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such work. This circumstance is of course satisfactory 
in so far as it indicates a great advance in the pros- 
perity of the East Indian by his transport to this 
country. 
The objects of Natural History shown were numerous 
but very badly prepared. From this condemnation we 
must however except the splendid casts of fishes, made 
by a new process of his own, shown by Mr. M. R. Mattis 
of Surinam. Another collection which seemed to attract 
less attention than it deserved was a fine series of Carib 
stone implements from St. Vincent, shown by Mr. E. 
Atkinson of that island. Some good examples of such 
weapons from St. Lucia were also shown by Mr. Rous- 
selet. We hope to be able to give figures of the whole, or 
at any rate of part of these implements in the next 
number of this journal, in the first of a series of articles 
which we propose to publish on stone implements from 
the West Indies generally. 
Perhaps the most justly popular feature in this Exhibi- 
tion was the table on which the Government Chemist had 
placed his illustrations of his proposed method of 
purifying Lamaha water. For the sake of readers 
outside the colony, it may be as well to record that 
with the exception of the rain water off the roofs, 
the only water supplied to Georgetown comes to 
town through the Lamaha Canal, and that this water 
is so impregnated with vegetable matter that it has the 
colour of a weak infusion of tea, nor is it altogether 
without objectionable smell. For years past, strenuous 
and expensive efforts have been made to supply the 
town with more useful water ; but at present, and as far 
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