The Rev. L. Veunon Haecouet occiqned the Chair. 



The foregoing Report having been read and adopted, a con- 

 versation ensued, in tlie course of which it transpired that five 

 members of the Council (the Rev. L. Veknon Harcoukt, the 

 Tbeasukek, Mr. Godson, Mr. Rlandy, and Mr. Dilke), in order 

 to enable the Society to meet 2000/.. worth of old promissory notes, 

 had guaranteed their payment by instalments, thus relieving the 

 Society from a serious temporary embarrassment. So liberal an 

 act was regarded as deserving the warmest acknowledgments. 

 Several Fellows expressed a wish that the Journal, or some 

 equivalent, should be revived ; and it was an understanding, that 

 steps would be taken for the issue of a monthly sheet, to be sent 

 by post to all the Fellows. Other matters were deferred to a 

 future General Meeting. 



The Chairman then announced that H. R. H. The Prince 

 CoNsoET had been unanimously re-elected President ; W, Wilson 

 Saunders, Esq., Treasurer ; and Professor Lindley, Secretary ; 

 and that the Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, Professor 

 Henfrey, and Mr. Charles Edmonds, had been elected new 

 Members of Council, in the room of Sir J. Ramsden, Bart., 

 Mr. R. Glendinning, and Mr. J. Spencer, removed ; and 

 that Jonathan Clarke, Esq., and Mr. James Eraser, had been 

 elected Auditors. 



Address to the Fellows from the Council of the Sorticidtural 



Society. Jan. 29, 1859. 



(Referred to at page 1 of the preceding Report) 



The Council of the Horticultural Society, finding that, not- 

 withstanding the liberal manner in which a considerable Sub- 

 scription was made by a number of the Fellows, and the 

 expenditure out of the ordinary income of the Society of other 

 large sums in maintaining and adorning the Garden at Chiswick, 

 it remains almost unvisited even by the Fellows ; and that the 

 Public is evidently deterred by the distance from going s 

 even on the days of Exhibition, have arrived at 



