Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, Volum 12Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway J. Thomson, 1899 Reports and proceedings of the society are included in each volume. |
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A. R. Gilzean acres Barbados Beetle Botanic Gardens British Guiana Calcium Oxide CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS cocoa Colony Commercial Society Committee of Correspondence common contain total Nitrogen Crowa fibre cultivation Demerara River Directors Elections.-Members estates exhibits experiments faulty rum filter following donations G. S. Jenman Garnett Government Secretary honour to report Horticultural and Poultry Horticultural Show Howell Jones Imperial Institute Indian J. B. Harrison J. J. Quelch John Junor L. M. Hill Labarria labour land letter Magnesium Oxide Meeting held meeting then terminated Members present ment Messrs microbe Moruca motion Museum obtained organism Phosphoric Anhydride plants Potassium Oxide Poultry Show President Prize-list prizes Professor Harrison R. G. Duncan reference residues and combined rice Roraima S. M. Bellairs sediments seedling canes shipment snakes Society were accorded Sodium Oxide species specimens spirit Sugar Cane Surinam T. S. Hargreaves thanks Timehri tion tobacco trees trenches VELEY W. B. Ritchie
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Pàgina 113 - Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine : ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
Pàgina 129 - Kew, lias been appointed Commissioner of Agriculture and will take up his duties in Barbados early in October next. He will correspond directly with the Colonial Office upon all matters concerning the general work of the Department ; on matters affecting Colonial Establishments and expenditure he will correspond with the several Colonial Governments through the Colonial Secretaries. 3. He should be consulted on all Botanic and Agricultural questions, and on all matters affecting the...
Pàgina 128 - Council have had under consideration a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies dated the The Minister of to whom the said despatch was referred, reports that (here follows the minister's report verbatim).
Pàgina 58 - The modifications, by a wide range of electives, in our college curriculum, yield much that Dr. Bigelow claimed on his side. The following is a copy of a letter addressed to Dr. Bigelow by the distinguished historian, William Edward Hartpole Lecky : — • " ROME, Feb. 12, 1866. " SIR, — I beg to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of your lecture on ' The Limits of Education,' which I have read with great interest.
Pàgina 32 - Michigan has the groundcolor a yellowish brown, and there is a black streak from the eye to the angle of the mouth ; a second vertical stripe under the eye. The spots on the back are only about 45, of which 13 belong to the tail. This species is probably allied to 0.
Pàgina 84 - So far no use has been made of them, but later on they \vill be taken for hauling cars on railway and such work. Yours, &c., j. MAVOR. British Consulate, Paramaribo, April 25, 1898. Dear Sir, — On the other leaves of this letter you will find information already refered to in a previous letter regarding Buffaloes in this Colony. I have seen all these animals; they are all in very fine condition, and appear to put on more fat than other cattle here on the same food. Perhaps they would interbreed....
Pàgina 84 - Cayenne abont three years ago, (a pair : buil and cow) , there are now four, and a fifth on the way. They are the descendants of a shipment brought by the French Government from China and do all the transport work there, draw ploughs, &c. The climate here suits them admirably, without any care whatever they keep in excellent condition all the year round, usual plagues have no teirors for them — mosquitos, ticks, etc., are guarded against by a mud bath.
Pàgina 31 - Specimens of from 8-12 feet are by no means uncommon, especially in the higher districts of the North-west, where they seem to be much more common than elsewhere. It is certainly the species that is most feared locally, being credited with the habit of attacking people whenever met with. This however is not the case, for in the writer's experience they have always remained as though asleep, and even on disturbance merely raised the...
Pàgina 35 - In the latter the black rings are in sets ol three separated from each other by narrow yellow or whitish spaces, and each set of three from the next set by red bands, which are usually wider than the others. In Elaps corallinus, the black and red bands are more or less regularly arranged, the black being edged with' yellow, and the red spotted with black.
Pàgina 29 - ... pieces, closely packed together and interlocked by the incurving of the first lobe of each piece over the second lobe of the preceding, which allows the free movement of each with the resulting shrill sound. Detailed reference to the structure and development of the peculiarities of this appendage, is however unnecessary here, since in Vol. V. New Series, 1891, of...