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XXXV.—MONTHLY SUMMARY. 
May 1, 1868. 
Uncovering of the Memorial of the Exhibition of 1851.—The 
arrangements for this ceremonial have now been determined on. 
The Council and Executive Committee of the Memorial Committee 
having learned that a later day than the Sth of June would be more 
convenient for some of the members of the Royal Family, took the 
pleasure of Her Majesty and Н.В.Н. the Prince of Wales on the sub- 
ject, and it has consequently been altered to the 10th of 
The ceremony will take place partly in the Horticultural Garden and 
partly in the Exhibition Building, which for the day is to be open to 
visitors to the garden. | 
The general nature of the proceedings may be described аз а reception 
—a procession—the presentation of addresses, and the uncovering of 
the Memorial. 
The bodies who are to have the honour of taking an especially pro- 
minent part in the proceedings of the day are, the Committee of the 
Memorial of 1851, by whose persevering exertions the Memorial has, 
through many difficulties and much labour, at last reached its present 
crowning point ; and the Council of this Society, who are the hosts of the 
great personages who are to honour the garden with their presence. 
The Memorial Committee will receive their Royal Highnesses the 
Prince and Princess of Wales on their arrival at one of the entrances of 
the Exhibition Building, and will conduct them to the platform under the 
Western Dome. Неге the guests who are to walk in the procession 
will assemble. Every one who takes part in it is required to be in 
uniform, court dress, or robes of office 
During the assembling of the guests under the Western Dome, an 
the marshalling oft he procession, military music will be performed both 
in the building and in the garden. 
The procession will move down the nave of the building, and, turning 
to the left, ascend to the refreshment rooms overlooking the n. 
The first idea was to conduct Their Royal Highnesses to this spot 
chiefly for the sake of the view of the garden to be obtained from the 
refreshment windows, and to return from thence to the front of the great 
fountain, and there, on a large dais, to perform the greatest part of the 
ceremonies of the day. The obstruction which such an erection, in the 
very centre of the garden, would offer to the view of the spectators, led 
to that plan being abandoned in favour of that now adopted. In front 
of the refreshment rooms, at the bottom of the garden, and directly 
oy s “e е portico, is now to be erected а baleony m of 
