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Gardens which was established for the acclimatization of plants and to 
assist the agricultural interests generally throughout the colony. 
Failing to obtain a portion of the Botanical Gardens, the Committee 
had been offered a piece of land on Plantation Houston , by Mr. Jones, 
but on inquiry it was found not to be suitable for the purpose intended. 
Extra6ls of letters from Mr. Walker : — 
Although Parliament is in recess you will observe from the pages of 
the Colonies and India that there is no cessation of the efforts to throw 
light upon the question of the boundary between British Guiana and 
Venezuela, and I feel constrained to express the hope that the local 
Government or the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, or 
both, may be disposed to take an active interest in the question by pro- 
viding funds to meet the cost of making needful researches in the 
British Museum, the Record Office and similar colleftions, with the 
object of establishing our rights in the disputed territory. 
The matter is rapidly becoming one of increased interest and im- 
portance and should not be allowed to go to sleep again in its present 
condition of incertitude ; and this reminds me that years ago it was 
suggested that the library of the Society should gradually be made to 
comprise a complete collection of all available works relating to the 
Western Hemisphere, including maps, charts and manuscripts, the 
nucleus of which may be found in the Department of Local Literature 
indicated in each of our recent catalogues. — (061. 5.) 
So far as one can judge from the newspaper reports, the success of 
the local efforts for the Jubilee celebration must have been complete 
and afforded unalloyed gratification. 
Since the date of my latest letter I have received from Messrs. Cham- 
pion & Sons, Solicitors, their bill of costs for services rendered to the 
Society in the matter of Ridgway's Bankruptcy, amounting to £z\ 3s. 
An inspection of this account will show that I have only sought Messrs. 
Champion's intervention upon technical matters and where it was 
indispensably necessary. I have myself carried on all the other corres- 
pondence with the officials and others concerned, and when I found, as 
reported in my letter of the 26th January, that there was no prospe6t of 
a dividend becoming payable, I requested Messrs. Champion & Sons to 
favour me with their bill of costs under the impression that their pro- 
