EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL, MAY 1, 1860. 



The Report having been read, it was moved bj Mr. John 

 Claremont Whiteman, of Theydon Garnon, and seconded by 

 Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., that it be 

 received and adopted ; which resolution was carried unanimously. 



In reference 1 



passage m the foregomg Report (p. 186), 



Mr. C. Wentwoeth Dilke, explained that it should be h 

 mind that the 50,000Z. which the Society was bound to expend on 

 the new Garden, did not include furniture, fittings, tents,- or other 

 moveables; and that therefore there would be some additional 

 outlay on that account. 



The Treasurer stated that all monies received by the Society 

 on the Kensington Gore account were invested in Government 

 to yield interest in aid of that payable upon 



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

 Consort had been unanimously re-elected President ; W. Wilson 

 Saunders, Treasurer ; and Prof. Lindley, Secretary ; and that 

 Henry T. Hope, of the Deepdene, near Dorking; Henry 

 PowNALL, of 63, Russell Square; and Robert Wrench, of 

 London Bridge, had been unanimously elected new Members 

 of Council, in the room of Col. Challoner, H. G. Bohn, and 

 J. R. Scott, removed; also, that Jonathan Clark, Edward 

 RosHER, and Mr. George Paul, had been elected Auditors for 

 the ensuing year. 



The drawings, and a model of the various parts of the new 

 Garden ; the tentative sketches alluded to in the Report ; the 

 patterns of colonnades as prepared by the Royal Commissioners ; 

 and the ground works in the Garden itself, were afterwards 

 inspected by the Fellows. 



