PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

VOLUME THE FIFTH.

1873-4.

UNIV OF
CALIFORNIA

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY THE INSTITUTE,

15, STRAND, W.C.

1874.

(The rights of Publication and Translation are reserved.)

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The Council of the Royal Colonial Institute are not responsible in any way for the opinions expressed by the Authors of the several Papers inserted in this volume.

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE,

15, Strand, W.C.

October, 1874.

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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CHRISTIAN, K.G.
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CARNARVON.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF GRANVILLE, K.G.

THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT BURY, K.C.M.G.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD CARLINGFORD.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE, BART., C. B., M.P. THE RIGHT HON. GATHORNE HARDY, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. STEPHEN CAVE, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD LISGAR, G.G.B., G.C.M.G.

THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT MONCK, G.C.M.G.

Ordinary General Meeting: Colonial Aids to British Prosperity, together

with a Retrospect of the Progress of our Dependencies in the last

Quarter of a Century, by Mr. P. L. Simmonds...

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Ordinary General Meeting: Our Relations with the Ashantees, by Sir R.

G. MacDonnell, K.C.M.G. and C.B.

Ordinary General Meeting: Settlements on the Straits of Malacca, by

Mr. Leonard Wray ...

Ordinary General Meeting: The Forests of British Guiana, by Mr.

William Walker

Paper on the Economic Value of the Forests of Tasmania, by Mr. Hugh

Munro Hull ...

Paper on the Woodlands of Tasmania, by Mr. J. Erskine Calder

Ordinary General Meeting: New Zealand-Past, Present and Future, by

Mr. Frederick Young

Annual General Meeting (Sixth): with Paper on the Present State and

Future Prospects of the Indians of British North America, by

Professor Daniel Wilson

LIST OF FELLOWS.

Those marked * are Honorary Fellows.

RESIDENT FELLOWS.

ABRAHAM, AUGUSTUS B., Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W.

ADDERLEY, AUGUSTUS B., 3, Porchester Terrace, W.

ADDERLEY, THE RIGHT HON. SIR C. B., K.C.M.G., M.P., 35, Eaton

Place, S.W., and Hamshall, Warwickshire.

ADLER, J. H., 79, Coleman Street, E.C.

AIRLIE, THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF, Airlie Lodge, Campden Hill,

Kensington, W., and Brookes' Club.

ALCOCK, COLONEL, 39, Green Street, Grosvenor Square, W.

ALLEN, CHARLES H., F.R.C.S., 104, Albion Road, Stoke Newing-

ton, N.

ANDERSON, WILLIAM MATHER, Oriental Bank, 40, Threadneedle

Street, E.C.

ARBUTHNOT, MAJOR, R.A., Carlton Club, & 118, Belgrave Road, S.W.

ARGYLL, HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF, K.T., Argyll Lodge, Campden

Hill, Kensington, W.

ATKINSON, CHARLES E., 14, Addison Crescent, Kensington, W.

AULD, PATRICK, Auldana Vineyard Office, Mill Street, Hanover

Square, W.

BADENOCH, REV. DR. G. R., Clarence Chambers, 12, Haymarket, S.W.
BARCLAY, SIR DAVID W., BT., 42, Holland Road, Kensington, W.
BARR, E.G., 76, Holland Park, W.

BEDINGFELD, FELIX, C.M.G., 36, Green Street, Grosvenor Square, W.
BEER, JULIUS, 23, Park Crescent, Portland Place, W.