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they might be made by any who possess ingenuity and 
leisure. 
Some years ago it was suggested to the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society that some attempt should be made to 
secure and preserve in the Society's Museum objects of 
interest to be found in British Guiana which for want of 
care are, year by year, becoming lost. 
Scattered through the colony are many articles which, 
although no longer new to us, would be most interest- 
ing to strangers. Can no one rout out of some odd 
corner an old sugar mill, which would afford a strik- 
ing contrast to the splendid specimens of modern 
engineering skill that we may be sure the leading 
manufacturers of machinery will exhibit in 1886? Are 
there no relics of the old cotton and coffee indus- 
tries which, with others, are lying it is hoped only 
dormant, for want of labour and a remunerative mar- 
ket ? There must be here and there specimens of 
old china and glassware, quaint ornaments, old fashioned 
plate, coins, weapons, tools and other odds and ends of 
the past, illustrative of the habits and customs of the 
earlier colonists. Surely with a little trouble and perse- 
verance many such objects of interest would be dis- 
covered. 
Trophies, as they are called, are very often an excel- 
lent mode of exhibiting articles which, in detail, are com- 
monplace and uninteresting. I do not say that a pyra- 
mid of sugar hogsheads would be a thing of beauty, but, 
as nets gracefully festooned, and even kegs and preserved 
food tins, more or less artistically arranged, have been 
made to present an attractive appearance, so might Bri- 
tish Guiana show similar, and by no means ugly, arrange- 
