PROCEEDINGS OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A lecture on some of the plants exhibited was given by the Rev. 

 Prof. Geo. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H. (See p. 111.) 



At a meeting of the Council held this day the President moved, and it 

 was unanimously resolved : " That an Address of Condolence be sent to 

 His Majesty King Edward VII. on the occasion of Her late Majesty Queen 

 Victoria's death, and that a wreath be sent to Her Majesty's funeral." 



In pursuance of this resolution a wreath was sent by special messenger 

 to Windsor by Messrs. Wills & Segar, and the following Address was 

 forwarded by the President to the Home Office : — 



117 Victoria Street, 



London, S.W. : 



Feb. 4, 1901. 



We, Your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Council of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, humbly approach Your Majesty with an 

 expression of our deep and enduring sorrow at the grievous loss which 

 has overtaken your ^Majesty in the death of our beloved and venerated 

 Queen and Empress, Patron of our Society — a loss felt to be irreparable 

 by every subject throughout the Empire. 



Furthermore, we most respectfully beg leave to congratulate Your 

 Majesty upon your accession to the Throne of your ancestors, and to wish 

 Your Majesty most heartily a long, happy, and prosperous reign. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



Trevor La^vrence, 



President. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



February 12, 1901. 



Sir Trevor Law-rence, Bart., V.M.H. (President of the Society), 



in the Chair. 



The Minutes of February 13, and July 3, 1900, were read and signed. 



Felloivs elected (12). — Arnold B. Adams, John Basham, jun., 

 Gardner S. Bazley, William Beale, James Blinkhorn, Ernest W. 

 Brigstock, Mrs. Cameron, ]\Irs. Campion, F. G. Courthope, J. P., Arthur R. 

 Goodwin, J. E. Moore Gwyn, J. P., Lawrence C. Higgins, Miss Hopkins, 

 W. T. Jay, Spencer B. Kendall, T. Key, Owen E. Knatchbull, Charles R. 

 Marcham, F. B. McTier, Miss Constance Miller, George Miller, I. m. Mitter 

 (India), Henry G. Morgan, Thomas Neighbour, Mitchell Nicoll, H. Peerman, 

 Hon. A. Pennington, Mrs. Pennington, Mrs. Bentham Rae, Chas. M. 

 Rassell, George F. Roumieu, J. P., Mrs. H. Sanderson, John F. Spencer, 

 Miss Staveley, John Stephens, A. B. Herbert Story, Charles Tickell, 

 Hon. Mrs. Townshend, W. Unwin, Baron Dickenson Webster, Miss 

 C. Welch, Frederick A. Wood. 



A vote of thanks to the retiring Members of Council, F. Du Cane 

 Godman, Esq., F.R.S., and Dr. Hugo Miiller, F.R.S., was proposed by 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes, V.M.H., F.R.S., and seconded by Dr. Masters, F.R.S., 

 and carried unanimously. 



