THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: INCLUDING A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS PRELIMINARY TO THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY, IN AUGUST, 1850. VOL. 1. NO. 1. HONOLULU, H. I: PRINTED BY HENRY M. WHITNEY: GOVERNMENT PRESS. 1850. Exchange 1-8430 PREFACE. The papers presented to the public in the present No. have been collected and published in accordance with a vote of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, passed at their recent meeting. It is due to the authors of these papers to state that they were prepared with no expectation that they would ever be printed, and simply for the benefit of the meeting at which they were read. It was, however, believed by those who then heard them that they embodied an amount of information too valuable to be locked up in the archives of the society, and they have accordingly been collected in the present form. Should the Society be prosperous and increase in members and usefulness, as its founders confidently hope, it has been thought that its members would look back with interest to its "day of small things," and be glad to have a chronicle of the rude beginning of Hawaiian Agriculture. LAN PROCEEDINGS OF PRELIMINARY MEETING. FIRST DAY. Agreeably with an invitation to "all Farmers, Planters, Gardeners and other persons interested in the formation of a society for the promotion of Hawaiian Agriculture," published in the Polynesian of April 27th, a very respectable number of the residents of Honolulu, and some from other parts of the Hawaiian Kingdom, met at the Vestry Room of the Bethel Chapel, on Monday evening, April 29th, 1850. His Honor, Judge ANDREWS, was called to the chair, and C. R. BISHOP was appointed Secretary for the meeting. His Honor, Judge LEE, being called upon by the Chair, stated, briefly, the object of the meeting; said that it was a preliminary meeting, called principally for the purpose of appointing a Committee to correspond with the planters, farmers and others upon the different islands, at some future time to call a meeting of the people of all the islands, who are interested in agriculture, with a view of forming a Society, and uniting the action of those interested in the culture of the soil; that the business of such Committee should be definitely stated, and that he considered all classes, trades and professions of residents interested in the promotion of agriculture, the consumer, as well as the producer. Messrs. Reynolds, Newcomb, Marshall, Fuller, Damon, Armstrong, Whitney, Johnson and Castle addressed the meeting in favor of the object proposed. On motion of Mr. Marshall, a committee of five was appointed in accordance with the suggestion of Judge Lee. The following gentlemen were placed on that committee. Wm. L. Lee, James F. B. Marshall, R. W. Wood, W. Newcomb, and Stephen Reynolds. On motion, the committee were instructed to fix upon a time for the |