Our Representation at the International Colonial 
Exhibition of 1886. 
By Geo. H. Hawtayne. 
beg to offer the following suggestions as to the 
best mode of effecting a thorough representa- 
tion of British Guiana at the Colonial Exhibi- 
tion to be held in London in 1886. 
The local Exhibition under the charge of the Royal 
Agricultural and Commercial Society, which would other- 
wise have been held this year, having been postponed 
until 1885, may conveniently be made the means of 
collecting exhibits from which the best specimens maybe 
selected for the Internationial Exhibition of the following 
year. 
Our former Exhibitions have too frequently suffered 
from the indifference shown by persons who are able, and 
who might be induced, to contribute, and from delay in 
collecting or forwarding exhibits, followed by hasty pre- 
paration and undue pressure on the time and resources 
of those entrusted with receiving and arranging the 
various contributions. The first of these evils is possibly 
due to hesitation arising from the want of knowing what 
to exhibit and how to exhibit ; and the latter may arise 
from there being no one to assist or encourage intending 
exhibitors with advice and to keep them up to the work. 
It is true that 1886 is a long way off, but it is equally 
true that to colle6t, manufacture, or prepare good speci- 
mens properly will take all the intervening time, with 
much constant care and industry. No time therefore 
