6-4 REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON GENETICS 
VISIT TO BURFORD. 
On the afternoon of Wednesday, August 1, the members of the Con- 
ference, with many ladies, went on a visit to the beautiful country residence 
of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., the President of the Society, at Burford, 
near Dorking, in Surrey. 
They travelled by special train from Victoria Station, and on arrival 
were warmly welcomed by Sir Trevor and Lady Lawrence. Luncheon 
was served in a marquee most charmingly decorated to harmonise with 
the surrounding fohage. 
DnsEUNER DU 1 AotT, 1906. 
Darnes de Saumon. Sauce Remoulade. 
Cotelettes de Mouton a la Norvégienne. 
Patés de Pigeons a la Franeaise. 
Poulets et Langues au Cresson. 
Salade de Laitues. Salade jardiniére. 
Jauibon a l’Aspie. 
Rond de Boeuf a |’Anglaise. 
Quartier d’Agneau. Sauce Menthe. 
Roast Beef a la broche. 
Entremets. 
Gelée aux liqueurs. 
Riz a VImpératrice. 
Tartes aux fruits. 
Macédoine de fruits. 
Glaces panachées. 
Luncheon ended, Dr. Professor Wittmack, of Berlin, rose to propose the 
health of the President. He said :—I am sure, ladies and gentlemen, that 
I speak in your name, as well as my own, when I offer our heartiest thanks 
to Sir Trevor and Lady Lawrence for the abounding kindness and hos- 
pitality with which we have been received here to-day. Is not every- 
thing here lovely! We from Germany have not often had occasion to 
see an English country mansion-house, or the English gardens and parks. 
Therefore I am more astonished at the beauty and the calmness of this 
delightful situation. When we return to our own lands we shall always 
think with pleasure of the mansion of the President of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. The Royal Horticultural Society is a venerable 
Society. It is now more than a hundred years old. But I am sure that in 
all those hundred years it has never had a better President than now. 
He has now been President for a long series of years—twenty-one years. 
You heard something about the Society in his address on Monday evening 
but he did not tell you all. When he began his reign the Society was 
very, very much down. Now it is flourishing, it is very, very much up ; 
and to whom is that due? It is indebted for that to a great extent to its 
