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may deem best, and to report the results to the Secretary of this 
Society." 
Also of the following questions : — 
(1) What steps have been taken since the meeting of the Society on 
the 5th May to obtain the Arrears of Subscriptions due on Timehri for 
the years 1883, 1884, and 1885, then amounting to $341:46; and how 
much has been thus obtained ? 
(2.) What efforts have been made to collect the subscriptions due on 
Timehri for 1886, and how much has been thus collected. 
(3.) What has been done by the Agricultural Committee of this 
Society to utilise the sum of $2,000 placed at their disposal by the 
Directors, out of the balance in hand of the funds of the Society at 
31st December, 1886. 
The following letters from the Acting Government 
Secretary, were read : — 
No. 4,199, 24th June, 1887, — Referring to an offer of the Rev. John C. 
Brown, LL.D., to present to free libraries in the Colonies, copies 
of his publications on Modern Forestry. 
No. 4,228, 21st June, 1887, — Forwarding by direction of His Excel- 
lency the Lieutenant-Governor, a copy of a report (in French) by 
Prof. E. Reuss of Nancy, on the Forestry Exhibition at Edin- 
burgh in 1884. 
No. 4,227, 21st June, — Forwarding Circular Despatch from the 
Colonial Secretary of State re Centennial International Exhi- 
bition, Melbourne, 1888. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded for the 
same. 
No. 4,199 was referred to the Book Committee, and 
No. 4,227 to the Committee of Correspondence. 
In regard to the latter, however, the view of the 
meeting was that the colony had participated in quite 
enough exhibitions for the present. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the Rev. 
Joseph Ketley for a framed portrait of Sir Robt. Schom- 
burgk presented by him, 
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