36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
from such comparison as any gentleman in * out 
Bes wot ay challenge it to (hear, hear). 
Although there may not be so many eri etri 
now on the Council as there were at a former time. 
tf 
it isn any disinclination on the р f the 
powers that be to receive such gen at their 
couneil- but from the diminished sup y of 
horticulturists, There never was when 
t were so few eminent aid practical horticul- 
has only to mention 
that at the next vacancy h 
overwhelming majority. 
nem that the D has to advance es алин 
of botanical and hortic 
nt day— 
at the annual — of the Royal 
Ч аз a worthy ioe 
of one of the Copley э зрну мәна Y. oe г. е ‘ 
Berkeley— п 
gard 
the эшет of some of the worst parts of the ые 
8; thus callin ng forth, a ths be 
which one would have su pposed a titel 
to exclude the possibility of те of the kind, 
that love of Nen which I believe is innate in the 
Mr. шна СЕЕ the nature of the agree- 
ment between ommissioners “i ali nd the 
bo in pce of paym tal. 
the 
ODSON, Lares ME that, in чем i 
the decounts, ad m they were not full 
straightforward, = eie: 
HAIRMAN spoke as f follows :—I must be 
neat to тент Ње Society and gie 
upon the си ost reir 4 with which this 
port is about to 
of Commons ‘а жа party,’ Mr 
his son, ished milita ‘ideas | * 
camp, Major Phibbs. Ns y the «кер н 
those three have nothing 
КА wnd bis son, I must bese ты D 
Mr. Godson says that if his gon 
. Godson, I, 1 
in this кайн, deplore the language that 
but Iam happy to say that, like a distin 
sure, I sh: 
excused, perhaps, for = a little parliamentary 
l age, and I vor r to Mr. Godson, junior, 
j = Не advice. I tell him 
he has gre j hei is alm n 
knowledge of financial matters Ы pice jata 
events he can master figures, n them 
can turn 
from what they were intended | to mean н чәч 
sa ча 4 great accomplishment in Е а would-be ot 
ut Mr. Godson, I 
ears of parliamen ‘life, when I say that if he 
wish te of veri to ied, and his facts 
tob ‚ would recommend him to elothe 
len of what we have ra 
during the past yea ish, however, to пес 
. ng for the very satisfactory, clear, а dt 
succinct unt he has given to the goes fh 
the relations between missione had 
ociety. Mr. Bowring complains that he не i, 
o explain over and over apain this year hri 
xplain any matter ersons whose sett 
purpose is Ez: to learn it. Therefore, ЕС. 
Bowring has had very hard work this y P 
I hope he will not for a moment suppose of 
was from any deficiency in the lucid eens 
his remarks last year, but simply from the > mi 
obtuseness of ae € ges es дд 
fo entlemen, 
again to my old mi da: ее neal 
Mr, Godson, senior. He oid те һе м 4 
much, саа youn . Gods too t lee 
E Othe form in whieh М accounts 
чут айы eme cU Not I. 
The Cram : 
ts. 
before I the i 
the пе бишей, Dn 4 F am not very much mis = 
on archives up-stairs airs it 
