rOMOLOGICAL CONGRESS AT NAMUR. 711 



acceptance; It has still some supporters — but M. Grdgoire-Ndlis is not 

 among them. It has been ah-eady pretty well proved to be nonsense, and 

 it will go near to be Jhought so shortly. 



It only remains to add, that M, Gregoire's statements are free from the 

 bias of personal, or at least professional interesfe. He is merely an amateur 

 Horticulturist. By profession, he i&, a tanner^ By nature^ an amiable 

 and intelligent gentleman. 



LXXXIX.— REPORT TO THE COUXCIL BY THE 



DEPUTATION APPOINTED TO ATTEND THE 



INTERNATIONAL POMOLOGICAL CONGRESS, 



HELD AT NAMUR, ON THE 28xh OF SEP- 



^ TEMBER, 1862. 



By minute dated 13th June, 1802, the Council directed that 

 this Society should be represented nt the International Porno- 

 logical Congress at Namur by such members of the Society as 

 might be able to attend, and that the Assistant Secretary and 

 the Garden Superintendent should accompany them. 



In obedience to this resolution, a deputation, composed of 

 the folIo^\'ing gentlemen > attended the meeting at Namur, on the 

 28th of September, y\z. — J^J, Blandy, Vice-President ; Andrev/ 

 Murray, Assistant Secvetavy ; George Eyles, Garden Super- 

 intendent, and Thomas Rivers, Fellow of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. 



Your deputation found that the following Countries and Socie- 

 ties or Academies were represented by delegates, \iz. 



COMMITTEE OF ORGANISATION". 



MM. A- HoTER, President of tho Federation of the Horticultural Societies of 



Belgium, and of the Royal Commission of PomoIog3\ President. 

 Ferd, Kegeljax, Secretary of the Royal Society of Horticulture of 



the province of iJ^amur. Secretary. 

 A. BivoBT, Editing Secretary of the Royal Commission of Pomology, 



Manager of the Society Van Mons, at Fleurus. 

 F. De Caknabt-d' Ham ale. Senator, President of the Royal Society of 



Horticulture of ^lahnea, Yice-preaident of the Federation, 

 Ed. Morren, Professor of Botany in the University of Lidge, Secretaiy 

 ' of the Federation, and of the Royal Society of Horticulture of 



Liege* 



GER3IANy. 



MM. BoRCHERS, Chief Gardener of the Court at Herrenhausen, near 



Hanorer. Delegate of Hanoven 



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