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Institute of Agricultural Botany. 



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From a financial point of view it must be pointed out that 

 every guinea forthcoming from private sources has a potential 

 value of three guineas towards the income of the Institute. 



Although the Fellowship has only recently been started, the 

 support so far forthcoming encourages the belief that when 

 the scope of the work which the Institute is undertaking is 

 appreciated, the hope of the Council that two thousand Fellows 

 will be enrolled will speedily materialise. Among those already 

 elected are His Boyal Highness The Duke of York, K.G., Presi- 

 dent of the Boyal Agricultural Society, The Duke of Bedford. 

 The Marquess of Crewe, The Earl of Ancaster, The Earl of 

 Derby. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Viscount Milner, 

 Lord Ailwvn, Lord Clinton. Lord Bledisloe. Lord Ernie, Sir 

 Gilbert Greenall, Sir Harry Verney, Sir Matthew Wallace. The 

 Hon. E. G. Strutt, The Bt. Hon. E. G. Pretyman, M.P.. The 

 Bt. Hon. Walter Bunciman, Lieut. -Col. The Bt. Hon. Sir 

 Arthur G. Boscawen, Sir Thomas Middleton, Mr. Charles 

 Adeane, Mr. Samuel Farmer, Mr. B. B. Bobbins, and Lady 

 Margaret Boscawen. 



The Prime Minister, the Institute's first Life Fellow, has 

 written to the Chairman as follows : — 



10, Downing Street. 



Whitehall, S.W.I, 

 3rd November, 1921. 



Dear Sir Lawrence, 



I have been following with great interest the rapid progress 

 of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, and congratu- 

 late you and your colleagues on the serious and useful work 

 the Institute is already doing for the farming community. You 

 are wise to broaden the basis of your organisation by creating 

 a Fellowship of the Institute, which will enable everyone con- 

 cerned with the improvement of crops to help forward the 

 good work. 



I gladly show my appreciation of what you are doing by 

 asking to be enrolled as one of the first Life Fellows of the 

 Institute. 



With all good wishes for its continued progress both in 

 successful work and in wide support from everyone interested 

 in agriculture, 



Believe me, 



Yours sincerely. 



(Sgd.) D. Lloyd George . 



