"An ordinary General Meeting of the Institute was held in the Theatre of the Society of Arts, on Wednesday, January 7th, 1874, Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, K.C.M.G., and C.B., in the chair. Mr. Peter Lund Simmonds read the following paper on: Colonial aids to British prosperity, together with a retrospect of the progress of our dependencies in the last quarter of a century." Page 13.
Extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume the Fifth (1873-4).
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