The Official Reports on the Colonial Section of the 
Exhibition 7886, with Remarks.— By G. H. 
Hawtayne, C.M.G., F.R.G.S. 
HE Reports on the Colonial Sections of the 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 by the 
gentlemen nominated by H.R.H. the Prince of 
Wales as Executive President, have been edited by Mr. 
TRUEMAN WOOD, Secretarv to the Societv of Arts, and 
As the question of the continuation of the Journal 
was not settled until the May meeting of the Society, 
the present issue has been necessarily delayed. 
pression, and the impossibility of doing justice to certain 
subjects in the few pages allotted, is referred toby some 
of the writers. 
I propose to reproduce, for the benefit of those who may 
not have seen the work, such portions of it as are likely 
to be of interest to the readers of Timehrz. 
The report on MINING industries occupying 54 pages, 
is from the pen of Mr. Leneve Foster, one of H. M. 
Inspectors of mines. It may be interesting to us, to 
whom gold is at present an all absorbing topic, to know 
how the precious metal is distributed through the Colonial ' 
Empire. 
Mr. LENEVE FOSTER reporting on the sole British 
Guiana Exhibit, which I regret was but a small one — for 
