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reconmiend that the suggested publication should take the form of a 
half-yearly volume which should include : 
1st, A brief account of the proceedings at the monthly meetings of 
the Socict} 7 , together with such papers as may be read at these meet- 
ings ; these papers being published cither iu full or in abstract, according 
to the circumstances of each. 
2nd. Such other papers on the agricultural, scientific, geographical 
and literary aspects of the colony as may from time to time be 
obtainable. Of course, under the head of scientific matter would be 
published lists, as they can be compiled, of the animal and vegetable 
products of Guiana. 
3rd. Short occasional notes on subjects similar to those mentioned iu 
the last paragraph, wherever the available matter is not sufficient to 
warrant more extended notice. 
4th A combined meteorological and agricultural record of each half- 
year, which might be obtained, with the assistance of planters and of 
the police-force, by establishing stations at certain points throughout 
the inhabited parts of the colony from which periodical reports on the 
rainfall, the readings of the thermometer and barometer, if possible the 
sunshine, and also the state of the crops, should be forwarded to the 
Agricultural Society as a common centre. 
In further illustration of this suggestion I may briefly mention the 
available matter for the first half-yearly report. 
The part might open with a succinct account of the proceedings at 
the monthly meetings in the present half-year and of the papers read 
at these meetings. Then might follow an abstract of the papers which 
have been read during the past year, these not having been already 
published in permanent form. These papers are, I believe, too numer- 
ous to be now published except in abstract ; but with care such an 
abstract might be made to include all valuable matter. This might 
be followed, if the Colonial Government will consent, by a report 
on india-rubber trees of this colony which Mr. Jenman has 
already lodged with the Government Secretary. A paper on a 
colonial ethnological subject is available to be placed next ; and this, in 
turn might be followed by a paper, the materials for which have been 
put into my hands, on a journey made last year in the vicinity of 
Etoraima by an orchid collector. And lastly, as regards papers, I am in 
a [ " >hi i ion to add a carefully compiled list of the known literature of 
