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" T I M E H R I ,"{ 
BEING THE 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Comme^ 
cial Society of British Guiana, 
EDITED BY ' 
Everard F. im THURN, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, 4 ' 
Late Curator of the British. Guiana Museum. 
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1 HIS Journal, which is to be published half-yearly, on the 30th of June and the ] 
of December, is intended to contain not only, or chiefly, a record of the proceedi 
of the Society of which it is to be the organ, but also papers and occasional n< 
on Industrial, Scientific, and Literary subjects connected with British Guiana 
A Meteorological Record will, if it can be organized, form a regular feature i 
Journal. Lists of the known Flora and Fauna of the country will be given t 
time to time, as they can be prepared. A series of Vocabularies of the It 
Languages of Guiana is also in preparation ; and Anthropology will receive S] 
attention. 
Each part will consist of about one hundred and fifty octavo pages ; i 
twc parts will form one volume, with separate title page, table of contents, 
index. 
Every effort will be made to render the Journal, though its subject matter 
be Guiana, widely interesting to scientific and other readers both within and bcv 
the colony. 
As the Journal is an experiment, the success of which will epend grea 
the attainment of an adequate number of subscribers, and at,, if succea 
must advance the welfare of the colony, those interested in the matter arc ear! 
requested to subscribe. 
The Annual Subscription is fixed at 3 Dollars (12/6), in return for which 
half-yearly parts will be forwarded, post free, to subscribers. 
The following papers will probably be amongst those published in " Timehl 
December 1882. 
" The Forests of Guiana," by (1) The Hon. William Russell, (2) Q 
M Peakce, (3) Michael McTurk. 
" Figures and descriptions of West Indian Stone Implements," by The EcUJ 
" The Plants of the Kaieteur Savannah" by G. S. Jenman, F.L.S. 
•' Cane Soils and Manures" by E. E. H. FRANCIS, F.C.S., Government Analy 
Chemist. ... t ,■> _ 
" A Bibliography of Guiana," being an attempt at a complete list ot au v 
published on the subject, by The Editor. n u 
" Illustrations of tribal marks among the Indians of Guiana by iw 
Walter Heaed. 
" The Berbice River," by The Editor. 
" The treatment of Murder among the Aborigines," by Michael MolURK. 
London Agents: Messrs. Rldgway & Sons, 2, 'Wat erloo Plac ets 
PRINTED AT THF. "ARGOSY" PRESS, DEMERARA. 
