VAN HOUTTE MEMORIAL. 



COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Hogg, 171, Fleet Street, E. C, Chairman. 



Dr. Masters, F. R. S., 41, Wellington Street, W. C, 



H. J. Veitch, King's Road, Chelsea, S. W., Eon. Sec. 



and R. Thyne. 

 Moore, Thomas 

 Noble, Charles 

 Paul, George. 

 Paul, William. 



Silberrad, Arthur. 

 Stewart, A. B. 

 Telford, Charles. 

 Turner, Charles. 

 Williams, B. S. 

 Wilson, G.F.,F.R, 



The great respect in which the late Louis Van Houtte was held in this country, 

 alike lor his untiring devotion to the interests of Horticulture, and for his sterling 

 personal qualities, found expression in a meeting of Horticulturists, held under the 

 presidency of D' Hogg, Secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society at South 

 Kensington, on the 2nd of June. 



It was considered by those who met on that occasion that the most appropriate and 

 graceful manner of commemorating the services of the deceased, and of testifying to 

 the esteem m which he was held in this country, would consist in the establishment of 

 lor the purpose of providing a Medal, to be styled The Van Houtte Medal, to 

 u - quinquennial Exhibitions of the Royal Agricultural and 

 i Society have materially aided in 



be competed for 



Botanical Society of Ghent. The Exhibiti 



the progress of Horticulture, they are held in 



Houtte's labours had been carried on, and with 



associated. 



rtnch his 



all hereafter I 



July, 1876. 



