Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, Volume 12, Issue 1J. Thomson, 1898 |
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0/0 Citric Acid air-dried soil Alumina Anhydride Sulphuric Anhydride appear British Guiana Calcium Oxide Magnesium CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS Chlorine Citric Acid Citric Acid Solution Clay and Combined coffee Colony Combined Silica combined water Commercial Society Committee of Correspondence contain total Nitrogen contains Nitrogen Crowa fibre cultivation Demerara Demerara River Eichornias Exhibition filter flowers G. S. Jenman Government Secretary Hon'ble the Government Humus Imperial Institute Indian Iron Peroxide J. B. Harrison JOHN JUNOR Labarria labour lands Live Stock Magnesium Oxide Manganese Oxide Calcium marked Surinam Messrs microbe Moisture retained Moruca Museum obtained organism Oxide 4 Potassium Oxide Calcium Oxide Phosphoric Anhydride Phosphoric Anhydride Sulphuric pine-apple pit-vipers Potassium Oxide present Quartz Sand R. G. Duncan received November 15th residues and combined retained by air-dried rice rivers ROBERT SCHOMBURGK Root residues sample of soil samples of faulty Secretary reported sediments shipment Society were accorded Sodium Oxide species specimens spirit Timehri VELEY
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 28 - ... sufficient poison to kill ; but in the great majority of cases, it may be taken for granted the snakes were really not deadly, though perhaps capable of producing a certain amount of inflammation and more or less severe pain by means of the enlarged posterior maxillary teeth, whether grooved or not. To those who have an...
Page 29 - ... to the skin. Owing to the peculiar markings, the skins are in great request for pouches, purses, belts, and other such objects — neck-ties even being at times prepared from them. A peculiar feature in these and the other American vipers is the pit situated on each side of the face, below and between the nostril and the eye, and which has secured for them the distinctive title of " pit-vipers," though its function is by no means evident.
Page 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....
Page 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.
Page 47 - M'Laren, a vote of thanks was accorded to the President for his address. The following Communications were read: — 2.
Page 85 - ... Government of Cayenne about 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 terrors for them — mosquitos, ticks, etc., are guarded against byamud bath.
Page 55 - ... he did not think there could be any question as to the great advantages attending the application of steam power to the rolling of roads.