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held in any part of the world. Unfortunately for myself, I was unable 
to be present, but I was at the Second Conference in New York in 1902, 
when I was glad to see that Mr. Bateson communicated to the people of 
the States the Mendelian theories. This Society sent over Mr. Bateson 
and Mr. Nicholson, and the people of the States were very pleased indeed, 
and very proud, in fact, that you sent over Mr. Bateson, because he did 
such an immense amount of good out there. They have now got a great 
American Society, and they attribute it to the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and to the presence of Mr. Bateson at that Second Conference. 
I give you the toast of the Royal Horticultural Society, and couple with 
it the name of its worthy President, Sir Trevor Lawrence. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, in responding, said :—Mr. Chairman, Sir Daniel 
Morris, and Gentlemen,—I can assure you, speaking on behalf of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, I have been very much interested in the reminis- 
cences which Sir Daniel has brought to your notice. I am sorry to 
say that I have the advantage of Sir Daniel Morris by a good 
many years’ remembrance, and my memory goes back more years in 
connection with the Royal Horticultural Society than his does. I 
remember when, as a boy at school, I was allowed to go up by an 
early train as a great treat, for behaving properly, to see the Show at 
Chiswick. I remember very well what lively Shows they were. I was 
not present when the final disaster took place in connection with those 
Shows when, with the Society’s usual misfortune in regard to the 
weather at Chiswick, the tents collapsed in a tremendous blizzard, 
obliterating plants and visitors alike, and when the garments of ladies 
and gentlemen were scattered to the winds and had to be picked up 
in bushel-baskets. I believe that that occasion was almost the final 
disaster of the Chiswick Shows, which at one time were the most 
beautiful Shows ever conceived of. Then, as everybody knows, we were 
planted down in South Kensington—a curious example of the way in 
which British institutions possess the habit of endurance, notwith- 
standing mistaken management and the abandonment of the fundamental 
principle of horticulture pure and simple. Sir Daniel Morris has referred 
to his own efforts, for which the Society must be ever grateful to him. 
He says he was not at all times very popular as Treasurer, but who that 
does his duty under trying and painful circumstances, and cuts off 
extravagances in this direction and in that, can hope to be very popular ? 
No one likes what he considers as his privileges to be curtailed. But 
it is better to succeed than to be popular, and the fact will remain 
that Sir Daniel was Treasurer when the finances of the Society were 
checked in their downward career and set moving on that upward progress 
which they have pursued ever since. We were deeply sorry to lose his 
services so soon, but we are proud to think that it was from the treasurer- 
ship and reorganisation of the Royal Horticultural Society that Sir 
Daniel went out to the West Indies, where he has been able to do such 
invaluable work for the British Empire in our Colonies. Then as to 
our old friend Baron Schréder, it is impossible for anyone to speak 
too highly of the magnificent work which he has done for the Society 
and of the great enthusiasm with which he always inspired his colleagues 
on the Council, and I am quite sure that had it not been for the burden 
