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management to be determined by a joint Committee consisting 

 of Six Members, of wliom Tlu-ee shall be named by the Com- 

 missioners. 



It was not intended to make the Conservatory a hothouse, 

 but merely to adapt it for such plants as grow in greenhouses, 

 and only require shelter from severe weather. 



It was further intended that statuary, at some time or other, 

 should be placed in suitable parts of the Garden ; but it was 

 not a necessary part of the plan, and was only to be executed 

 as opportunity and means presented themselves. 



These conditions were afterwards considerably modified ui 

 detail, but the principle on which they were founded has never 

 been departed from. 



A Special Meeting of the Society was then held on the 

 7tli of July, for the purpose of determining whether they 

 would authorise the Council to proceed with this plan. After 

 hearing its details, inspecting the designs which had been 

 prepared by order of the Eoyal Commissioners, and fuUy 

 discussing the principal terms proposed by them, the meeting 

 unanimously m general terms approved of the plan, and autho- 

 rised the Council to proceed with their negotiations with the 

 Commissioners. 



This essential point having been settled, an announcement 

 was then made, that so great was the interest taken by the Queen 

 and the Prince Consort in the general scheme, that Her Majesty, 

 entirely approvmg of the plan proposed by the Council, was 

 most graciously pleased to signify Her Eoyal intention of 

 subscribing the sum of 1000/. towards the fund which must be 

 raised for canying it out, and of causing various branches of 



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