PROCEEDINGS 



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EOYAL HOETICTJLTUEAL SOCIETY. 



I.— MONTHLY SUMMAEY. 



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DEATH OF HIS HOYAL HIGHNESS THE 



PRESIDENT OF THIS SOCIETY. 



His Royal Highness the Pnace Consort is uo more. He 

 died at Windsor, on Saturday, the 14th ult. 



We have sought in vain for more expressive words to 

 record the loss which this Society, in common with the nation 

 and the world at large, has sustained, than the simple announce- 

 ment ahove given. The disastrous event stands out more im- 

 pressive in its simplicity than if it were clothed in the amplest 

 periods and choicest phraseology of sorrow. 



To a Society composed, like the present, of Fellows, of whom 

 a large proportion were personally known to the Prince, more is 

 not necessary for information, and any attempt at expatiating on 

 his eminent virtues and rare talents is uncalled for. 



The Garden at South Kensington will always be for the 

 Fellows a standinf;? monument of the Princess labours. It 

 was not merely his counsels which revived the Society, his 

 influence which restored its prestige, his plans which recruited 

 its funds, and so enabled the Society to construct the gardens; 

 it is actually the emanation of his own genius. Captain Fowke, 

 Mr. Smirke, and Mr. Ne&field furnished plans, but it was he who 

 first suggested the ideas which they put on paper; it was he who 

 examined the plans, altered and corrected them until they 



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