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, Secretary to the Society of Arts, and 
are issued under the supervision of the Council of that 
Society, forming a volume of some five hundred pages. 
The list of reporters contains the names of men well 
known in connexion with the subjefts of which they 
write ; some of the papers are more complete than others, 
while on several matters fullerinformation wouldhavebeen 
welcome. More than one paper bears evidence of com- 
pression, and the impossibility of doing justice to certain 
subjefts 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 Ttmehru 
The report on MINING industries occupying 54 pages, 
is from the pen of Mr. Leneve Foster, one of H. M. 
Inspeftors 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 
