COMMONPLACE NOTES. 



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COMMONPLACE NOTES. 

 By the Secretary and Superintendent. 



Gifts. 



The Society is constantly being indebted to kind and generous friends. 

 In the last Journal we mentioned that we were in need of a good micro- 

 scope for the use of the Scientific Committee. 



Curiously enough, on the same day we received two offers to supply 

 the want — one from Mrs. H. H. France-Hayhurst, who sent a magnificent 

 instrument, fitted with a great number of appliances ; the second from 

 Sir H. Yorke, who sent a sum of money to purchase a microscope, and 

 who, on being informed of Mrs. France-Hayhurst's gift, most readily con- 

 sented to allow his instrument to be a students' microscope for use at 

 Wisley. And subsequently Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., President of the 

 Society, enabled us to purchase two additional high-power object lenses 

 for each of the microscopes, so as to enable the working and development 

 of the smallest insects and minutest fungi to be observed. 



At the same time Lady Macleay offered to give, in memory of her 

 husband, the late Sir George Macleay, of Pendell Court, a much wanted 

 clock for the Council Room in our new building in Vincent Square. 

 The offer, we need hardly say, was gladly accepted, and a very flue clock 

 with bracket to stand upon is being made under the superintendence of 

 Messrs. Cowtan, of Oxford Street, who provided all the furniture and 

 fittings for the Council Room and Library. 



A great many things have also been given us for the Wisley Gardens, 

 some of which were mentioned in our last issue and some must be reserved 

 for the next ; but we cannot help mentioning the very valuable coDeciions 

 of ornamental trees and shrubs presented by the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 and by Messrs. G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone ; Clibrans, Altrincham ; T. 

 Cripps & Son, Tunbridge Wells ; G. Jackman & Son, Woking ; R. Not- 

 cutt, Woodbridge, Suffolk ; R. Smith & Co., Worcester ; James Veitch & 

 Sons, Ltd., Chelsea ; A. Waterer, Knapp Hill, Woking ; J. Waterer & 

 Sons, Bagshot. 



A most complete collection of Fruit Trees and Bushes has also been 

 presented by Messrs. G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone ; Dicksons, Chester ; 

 J. Fraser, South Woodford ; H. Lane & Son, Berkhamsted, Herts ; Hugh 

 Lowe & Co., Bush Hill Park ; Paul & Sons, Cheshunt, Herts ; J. R. 

 Pearson & Sons, Lowdham, Notts ; Thos. Rivers & Son, Sawbridgeworth, 

 Herts ; S. Spooner & Sons, Hounslow, Middlesex ; James Veitch & Sons, 

 Ltd., Chelsea. 



And, further, Mr. John Pinches, of Crown Street, Camberwell, has 

 presented upwards of 4,000 specially made labels, to be hung with alu- 

 minium wire, for the naming of the collections of Fruit Trees &e. 



A Society which has such real friends as these indeed shows evidence 

 of vigorous life. 



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