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Vice- Presidents. 

 Kkht Hon. Lord Henniker, F.R.S. F.A.S. ' 

 Sir^J. C. Hippisley, Bart. M.P. LL.D. F.R.S. F.A.S. 

 Isaac Hawkins Browne, F.R.S. 

 Rev. W. B. Coilyei, D.D. F.A.S. 

 Olinthus Gregoiv, LL.D. 

 Rev. Abraham Roes, D.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. 

 James Sowerby, F.L.S. G.S. V7.S. 

 J. F. Vaudercom. F.G.S. 



Treasurer and Honorary Secretary^ 



Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.L.S. 



Registrar, 



John Miers. Assistant ditto, T. R. Cromwell. 



Curators, 

 W. C. Pettigrcw ; T. J. Anniger. 



Orator for \%\^. 

 John Mason Good, F.R.S. 

 Council.- 



Tliomas Adaiiis; Jaincs Andrews; Jonathan Barber; Rev, 

 Geo.Bathie,D.D.; Thomas Redder; Benjamin Bensley; Clarke 

 Burton; John Thomas Cooper ; Geo. Dudley; Thomas Fisiier; 

 Charles F. Forbes, M.D.; H. C. Hodge; Samuel Meadows; 

 B. H. Smart; Peter Thomas; Richard Thompson; Thomas 

 Tucker ; Rev. T. M. Young, LL.B. 



The Anniversary Oration was delivered by Dr. Gregory, and 

 will shortly be published. It was very numerously attended, as 

 was ak-o the dinner; and many excellent addresses made by 

 His Roval Highness the Duke of Sussex, who was in the chair ; 

 by Lords Erskine, Henniker, &:c. : Drs, Gregory, Mason, Collyer; 

 Messrs. Coleridi^e, Pettigrew, &c.&c. &c. A volume of Trans- 

 actions of the Society is now in the press, and will appear about 

 the dose of the present year, 



CALEDONIAN HORTICULTUUAL SOCIETY. 



At a General Meeting of this Society Iield on the 10th Jun^ 

 the fcillowina; communications were read to the meeting-, ana 

 excited considerable interest : 



1 . On the Maturation of different Kinds of Fruit by artificial 

 Heat, after Removal from the Tree ; by James Howison, esq., 

 Douglas. 



2. Act;ount of a new Variety of early Potatoc called the Kil- 

 spindie Pdoom ; bv the Rev. Dr. Don. 



."i. Account of a simple Method of ventilating Hot-beds with 

 Air moderately heated ; bv Alexander Keith, esq., of RaveNtone. 



4. On 



