404 TlMEHRI. 
After a discussion, during which the communication 
of the Government Secretary was referred to, in which 
there was no intimation that the Society would be 
expected to pay for the specimens, Mr. Drysdale said 
that the matter should be left in the hands of the Govern- 
ment, and as this was the opinion of the meeting, the 
Secretary was directed to inform Mr. Jenman that the 
Society could not undertake to pay for the collections. 
Mr. N. D. Davis gave notice to move at the next 
General Meeting in October, the following additions to 
Schedule A. Chap. XI. :— 
There shall be a Committee to consist of not less than ten (of whom 
the Exchange Room Directors shall be three), and not more than 
twenty-four members of the Society, and to be called " The Commercial 
Committee." 
Such Committee shall, in the first instance, be eledted at a General 
Meeting of the Society, but shall have power to fill up vacancies in its 
own body, and to add to its number, subject to revision at a general 
meeting of the Society. The Committee shall thereafter be elected 
annually at the general meeting of the Society in December. 
The Committee so elected shall, at its first meeting, appoint a Chair- 
man, a Vice-Chairman, and a Secretary. At ail meetings three mem- 
bers shall constitute a quorum. 
The Commercial Committee shall endeavour to promote, as far as 
possible, the improvement of the trade of the Colony, and shall collect 
and disseminate information tending to develop and increase the 
resources of the Colony. 
Mr. Fleming exhibited a stone axe which had lately 
been dug from the clay at the back of Pin. Diamond. 
The Chairman thanked him for the exhibit and hoped 
he would present it to the Museum. Mr. Fleming 
promised to ask its owner to comply with this request, 
and in the meanwhile left it with the Assistant Secretary. 
Mr. Quelch asked permission to refer to a matter 
personal to himself, as editor of Timehri. It had been 
