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rcgalations declare that the Society shall be called THE CA- 

 LEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY; to be consti- 

 tuted of Ordinary, Honorary, and Corresponding Members. 

 To have a President, four Vice-Presidents, two Secretaries, a 

 Treasurer, twelve Counsellors, an Experimenter, and Painter. 

 One Vice-president and two Counsellors to be changed annually 

 and the President to be elected every two years. Twelve 

 members to focm a quorum of the Society, and three a quorum 

 of the Council. The Secretaries prepare the Transactions, of 

 •which every member must purchase a copy. Every new re- 

 gulation or alteration of any previous one to be made at a Quar- 

 terly Meeting. The objects of the society are the promoting- 

 and improving the cultivation of Fruits, Flowers, and Culinary 

 Vegetables. 



In January 1812 the total number of Members were 179. 



Wollaston, who was considered worthy of contesting- with him for the highest 

 seat in the English Court of Science, declining to be a candidate after 

 his friend had been nominated. — A slight opposition was made by some 

 unknown persons who proposed Lord Colchester, but, Sir Humphrey was 

 hailed as President by a majority of nearly 200 to J3. Ill-health obliged 

 him to resign the Presidency and he died whilst tryin|f the influence of a 

 milder climate, at Geneva, on the 29th of May, 1829. 



In private this illustrious individual was esteemed for his virtues, his 

 amiability, his warmth of friendship and his sincerity In tracing his pub- 

 lic progress, the truth, which cannot be too strongly maintained, is evi- 

 denced, that he who advances with steady pace along the path of Analysis, 

 aiming at the demonstration of facts, rather than the illustration of previ- 

 ously formed Theories must always be a permanent Benefactor of Mankind 

 whatever may be his pursuit — Such was Cavendish, such was Davy — With 

 an equal love of Science, with patience equally exhaustless, and with per- 

 severance equally unsubduable — their text and illustrations were furnished 

 by the Laboratory — The few theoretical Inductions they have given us are 

 the results from facts they had previously discovered — as such they are among 

 the few immutables of Science — like all Truth, they will descend unimpaired 

 amid the discoveries of ages — and if Chemistry ever becomes a perfect 

 Science will take their places in the structure incapable cf illustration, or 

 improvement by the master hand that guides the arrangement. 



