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Jjorietg 4 wtt®\ |)utitiut. 
Vol. hi.] 
DECEMBER, 
1884. [Part 
Edited by 
.E. F. im Thurn, ivx. 
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Contents, 
PAPERS.— Memoranda on the Palms of British Guiana, b^ 
the Editor; The Berbice River and an Analysis' of some of it: 
Soils, by the Hon. B. Howell Jones; The Cultivation of Liberian 
Coffee, by H. A. Alford Nicholls, M.D. ; On Commercial Relation 
with the Dominion of Canada, by P. H. Nind, M.A. ; Soluble v 
Insoluble Manures, by E. E. H. Francis ; Note on the Bounda} 
of Berbice, by Alexander Winter. 
Occasional Notes. — The Cultivation of Artificially Colour,. 
Feathers; A Point in the Psychology of Ants; The '-'Spam's/. 
Arawaks" of the Morooka ; Census of the Indians of the Pomeroon 
District; Sctaps of Colonial History; An Artificial Mound 
behind Plan. Leonora; Local India-rubbers ; Balata ; Local 
Literature. W 
Report of Society's Meetings, from July to December, 1884 
Publishers : 
Dcmerai'a : J. THOMSON, Argosy Printing Press, 
London . E. STANFORD, Charing Crossj S.W, 
