852 The John Innes Horticultural Institution, [feb., 



through which the great bulk of the eggs arriving in this 

 country are being supplied to the public. The name of the 

 firm in question can be ascertained on application. 



The late Mr. John Innes, of Merton, in Surrey, who died 

 in 1904, left a large sum of money for various charitable 



objects, one of which was the founda- 

 The John Innes Horti- tion of a school of horticulture. A 

 cultural Institution. scheme for the administration of the 



charity has been prepared by the 

 Charity Commission, and has recently been published. The 

 scheme provides for the payment by the trustees of yearly 

 sums out of the income of the charity for the maintenance of 

 a park and a boys' club at Merton, for the provision of 

 scholarships tenable at a local school, and for other charit- 

 able objects. With the exception of these sums and certain 

 annuities left by the late Mr. Innes, which together amount 

 to an aggregate yearly sum of about ^4,400, the residue of 

 the estate, which is estimated to produce about .£5,000 

 per annum, will be applied to the purposes of an institu- 

 tion, to be called the John Innes Horticultural Institution, 

 for the promotion of horticultural instruction, experiment, 

 and research. For the purposes of the institution the house 

 formerly known as the Manor Farm, Merton, and such por- 

 tion, not exceeding two acres, of the grounds as the trustees 

 may select, will be used, and in addition the trustees are 

 empowered, subject to the approval of the Charity Commis- 

 sioners, to provide further land, of which a sufficiently large 

 acreage in the immediate neighbourhood is available. 



The institution will be placed under the management of a 

 Council consisting of three trustees (ex-officio members) and 

 nine representative members. Two of the representative 

 members will be appointed by the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, and one by each of the following : — the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, the Fruiterers' Company, the National 

 Fruitgrowers' Federation, the Hebdomadal Council of the 

 University of Oxford, the Council of the Senate of the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, the Senate of the University of London, 

 and the Governing Body of the Imperial College of Science 

 and Technology. 



