MR. weir's journal, 559 



Class U. Peaches and Nectahikes, 6 FauiT, 



1st Prize, 5Z.— Messrs. H. Laue & Son^ F.R.H.S,, Great BerkliampsteacI, 



Herts. 

 Kectarinej 8tanwick ; Peaches^ Catherine, 4 Hahvay. 



4 



Class V. Plums, 6 Fruit. 



lat Prize, 4?. — Messrs. H. Lane & Son, F.R.H.S.,Great Eerkhampstead, 



Herts. 

 Angelina Burdett, Iinp^ratrice (blue), 2 Kirke's, Orleans 

 (white), Victoria (Denver's). 



LXVI.— ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



July 4, ]86S. 



An Ordinary General Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Council Room, at the Garden, South Kensington, on Friday, 

 July 4, J. C. WhitemaV, Esq., F.R.H.S., in the Chair, when 

 the following candidates were elected Fellows, viz. : 



Alford, The Lady Marian, 11. Prince's Gate, S.W. 



Croggan, Mrs., 22, Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, W. 



D'lsraeli, Ralph, 73, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W. 



ijlaunsell, Daniel Charles, 6, Gordon Square, W.C, 



Paulj Mrs., 3, Lonsdale Villas, Barnes, S.W. 



LXVII.— MH. WEIR'S JOURNAL. 



(Continued from pa</e 60.) 



Oct, 10th. — Called at Mr. Fry's this morning. Mr. F- gave 

 me letters of introduction to Mr. Fox, a watchmaker in St. PauPs, 

 and to Mr. Backbeuser of Santos. He also gave me a note to a 

 Brazilian house in St. Paul's, with which he had arranged my 

 credit. In the afternoon called upon Mi\ Miers, who gave rne a 

 letter of introduction to Mr. Hayden, an engineer on. the Sao 

 Paulo Railway, At three o'clock went on hoard the steamer. 



Oct, llth. — Arrived in Santos this evening. 



Oct. I2th. — Waited on Mr. Backheuser. Found that Mr. 

 Hayden lived at a place called Mujii, about 10 or 12 miles up 

 the river from Santos. 



Oct. rSth, — Took a walk for a few toiles out of Santos along 

 the unfinished lino of railway. The ground low and swampy, 

 covered in many places with brackish watei\ The railway knee- 



