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in the old documents formerly kept in the dome of the Public Buildings 
records and papers valueless as official documents, but most valuable 
as relics of a bye gone society. It would be only the duty of the 
members of our institution, as we venture to submit, were steps taken 
to acquire and preserve these. The arms used by the earlier settlers of 
various nations, such as guns, swords, pikes, and also old medals and 
coins, seals, stamps, autographs, specimens of the china and glassware, 
the household implements in use in bye gone years, would all most fitly 
find a place in our collection, and we venture to ask that the assistance, 
not only of our curator, but of the members of the Society and the 
general public be invited to this end. 
In conclusion we are sure that the annual report which the curator 
undertakes to furnish will be most useful and interesting. 
We have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your obedient servants, 
HENRY KIRKE, 
GEORGE H. HAWTAYNE. 
The Vice-President said that these papers contained a 
vast amount of matter which the meeting was not in a 
position to go into that day. He proposed that they 
should be printed for general information, so that they 
might be discussed at the next meeting. 
This proposition, having been seconded by the Hon. 
A. C. McCalman, was carried. 
The following proposal to publish a Journal in connec- 
tion with the Society was then read and discussed. 
Georgetown, 3rd January, 1882. 
To W. H. Campbell, Esq., 
Hon. Secretary of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society 
of British Guiana. 
Sir, — It has been suggested that the proceedings of the Society should 
be systematically published, in order that all valuable information 
accumulated by the Society should in future, as has not been the case 
in the past, be made available for reference and use. I wish to 
