392 TlMEHRI. 
A circular was read from the Secretary of the London 
Chamber of Commerce, in reference to the " Merchan- 
dise A61 of 1 887," suggesting the advisability of local 
legislation to give effe6t to the same within the colony. 
Referred to the Exchange-Room Directors, to take any 
a6lion they might consider necessary in the matter. 
The thanks of the meeting were accorded to Major 
Bunker, United States Consul, for a report of the 
Statistical Department of the State of Indiana, for 1886 : 
also to Mr. H. S. Durden, the Secretary of the State 
Mining Bureau, California, for copies of the 5th and 6th 
Annual Reports of the State Mineralogist of California, 
The meeting then terminated. 
Report of the Agricultural Committee. 
Report of the Agricultural Committee of the Royal Agricultural and 
Commercial Society, to the Society, on the project of the Government 
to acquire lands, on one of the Banks of the Demerara River for the 
growth of economic plants. 
The remarks of the President of the Society at a meeting held on the 
17th November, 1887, that the Government intended acquiring 50 acres 
of land on the Demerara River, for the purpose of growing such Plants 
as would not grow at the Botanical Gardens, and that a portion would 
be given to the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society for the 
purpose of enabling the Agricultural Committee of the Society to 
experiment in the growth of economic plants, were considered at a 
meeting held on the 5th December, 1887 ; and the Committee agreed to 
urge on the Society the advisability of recommending to the Govern- 
ment the necessity of having the Gardens thoroughly drained before 
extending their operations elsewhere, as they are of opinion that a 
great many things can be grown in the Gardens, which would in course 
of time form the nucleus of an important export trade from the colony, 
as was originally intended when the Gardens were first started, and in 
