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tioned that in his capacity of Secretary to the Agricul- 
tural Committee he had sent out numerous circulars of 
enquiry to planters, clergymen and others, soliciting 
information as to the prospers of fruit cultivation in the 
various districts of the colony, but up to the present 
time only three replies had been received. In the mean- 
time the Committee had shipped to New York, to the 
care of Messrs. Laycraft & Co., 10 barrels of limes, pro- 
cured from Mr. Howell Jones, as an experiment, the 
result of which would be laid before the Society in due 
course. 
The President having expressed satisfaftion at the 
aftion taken by the Agricultural Committee, put the 
motion to the Meeting, and it was unanimously carried. 
In the absence of Mr. Thomas Watt, a motion standing 
in his name on the same subject of fruit-shipments, was 
struck off, it being considered that Mr. Jones's motion 
met the same obje6l. 
In the absence of Mr. Hawtayne the motion standing 
in his name in reference to the colleftion of specimens of 
colony woods in section, &c, was ordered to stand over. 
The Secretary on behalf of the Rev. John Foreman 
gave notice of the following motions : — 
(1.) "Whereas Her Majesty Queen Victoria is the Patroness of this 
The Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana : 
Be it resolved— That the sum of One Hundred Dollars of the funds of 
the Society, be given towards the erection in this City of Georgetown, 
of the permanent Memorial of the Jubilee year of Her Majesty's reign. 
(2.) That the Agricultural Committee and the Book Committee, 
meet in alternate months after the Monthly Meetings of the Society." 
Mr. Wm. Price AbelPs paper on Notes onSteamBoilers 
applicable to Sugar Estates, read at the previous meeting, 
was brought up for discussion. 
