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Oeoege Feegusson Wilson died on Good Friday, March 28, 1902, 

 at his residence at Wey bridge, after some mouths of suffering. 

 He was boru in the year 1822, and had thus reached the age of 

 eighty. Por many years he was managing-director of Price's 

 Candle Company, in connection with which he discovered the 

 means of making pure glycerine, on which he read a paper at the 

 British Association as far back as 1855, at Grlasgow. The year 

 before that he had read a paper on the value of steam in the 

 decomposition of neutral fatty bodies before the Eoyal Society, of 

 which he became a Pellow in 1855. 



He was passionately attached to gardening, and threw himself 

 energetically into the management of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society, and much of its present successful position is due to his 

 efforts o]i its behalf. 



It was on April 1, 1875, that Mr. Wilson was elected Fellow of 

 the Linneau Society ; he was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society, 

 and the Eoyal Society, as mentioned above. A portrait of him 

 was published in ' The Garden,' April 5, 1902, p. 231. 



Dr. HocKEN, F.L.S., of Dunediu, 'New Zealand, then stated 

 that he had been desired by the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science to invite the presence of Fellows of the 

 Linnean Society of London to their forthcoming meeting to be 

 held at Dunediu in the month of January 1904, promising a 

 hearty welcome to all who might pay a visit to that interesting 

 country. 



June 5th, 1902. 



Prof. S. H. AMINES, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting, 24th May, were read 

 and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were severally balloted for and elected 

 Fellows : — Mr. EdM-ard Phelps Allis, junior, Mr. Edward Augustus 

 Bowles, Mr. Upendranath Kanjilal, Mr. Edward Kemp Toogood, 

 and Mr. Herbert Wright. 



The President announced that he and the General Secretary 

 had waited that day on His Eoyal Highness The Prince of Wales, 

 with the Charter-Book of the Society, which had been duly signed 

 by His Eoyal Highness as an Honorary Member. 



The President announced that he had nominated as Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing yi?ar : — Mr. Carruthers, Mr. Frank 

 Crisp, Mr. Herbert Druce, and the Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing. 



Dr. Otio St-IPE, F.L.S., exhibited the original specimen of 

 Trifolium alhidum, Eetz., from Eetzius's herbarium at Lund, 



