Excerpt from The Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, Vol. 1: Including a Record of the Proceedings Preliminary to the Formation of the Society, in August, 1850 It is due to the authors of these papers to state that they were pre pared with no expectation that they would ever be printed, and sim ply 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 pre sent form. Should the Society be prosperous and increase in members and use fulness, as its founders confidently hope, it has been thought that its members would look back with interest to its day of small things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.