viii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



23. It is with feelings of the utmost sorrow that the Council record 

 the loss during the past year of two of their own colleagues — Mr. T. B. 

 Ilaywood and Mr. Philip Crowley — Mr. Haywood had for many years 

 devoted his business knowledge and capacity ungrudgingly to the service 

 of the Society, and by his personal qualities had endeared himself to all 

 his colleagues. It is difficult to give adequate expression to the more 

 recent loss caused by the death of Mr. Philip Crowley, Avho has so long 

 and so ably filled the offices of Treasurer of the Society and Chairman 

 of the Fruit Committee. A slight acknowledgment of his services to 

 the Society was made during his lifetime in the Journal, Vol. xxv., 

 p. 158, but his death is still so recent that words fail to convey the depth 

 and reality of the Council's sense of the greatness of the loss they have 

 sustained. 



21. In accordance with Bye-laws 61, 62, and 69 the Council duly 

 appointed the Right Hon. the Earl of Ilchester to the seat on the Council 

 vacant by the resignation of Mr. Arthur Sutton, V.M.H., and Mr. George 

 Bunyard, V.M.H.., to the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Haywood. 

 They also appointed Mr. Gurney Fowler to be Treasurer in the room of 

 Mr. Philip Crowley until the Annual Meeting. 



25. The following Table will show the Society's progress in regard to 

 numerical strength during the past year : — 



Deaths in 1900. 



£ s. d. 



Life Fellows 14 0 0 0 



4 Guineas 0 0 0 0 



2 , 28 58 16 0 



1 „ 37 38 17 0 



19 £97 13 0 



Resigxatioxs. 



£ s. d. 



4 Guineas 0 0 0 0 



2 , 23 48 () 0 



1 „ 124 130 4 0 



147 £178 10 0 



Total Loss 22G £27G 3 0 



Fellows Elected, 1900. 



£ s. d. 



4 Guineas 11 40 4 0 



2 , 138 289 K; 0 



1 , 497 521 17 0 



Associates 10 5 5 0 



Affiliated Societies 8 10 10 0 



Commutations 9 



= £197.85. 



673 



£873 



12 



0 



276 



3 



0 



£597 



9 



0 



New Fellows, &c C7:} 



Deduct Resignations and | .^.^^^ 



Deaths. 



J 



Numeiical Increase 447 



The total number of Fellows, Members, Associates, and Affiliated Societies is 



now exactly 4,750. 



26. A scheme for the AfHliation of Local Horticultural Societies was 

 put forward a year or two since, and 120 Local Societies have availed 

 themselves of it. The Council express the hope that Fellows will promote 

 the affiliation of Local Horticultural or Cottage Garden Societies in their 

 own immediate neighbourhood. 



27. The Council have decided to hold a Conference on and Exhibition 

 of Lilies, at Chiswick, in connection with one of the ordinary Fortnightly 

 Meetings, at which special exhibits of Lilies will be invited. The con- 

 ference will take place on July 16, but the exhibition of flowers, kc. 



