will PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 March 22, 1904. 

 Mr. I) un yard, V.M.H., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (56). — Harry Allan, Frank Allen, Lionel Baker, 

 Samuel Barrow, H. B. Bell, Mrs. C. Bertram, H. C. Bolingbroke, Mrs. 

 II. A. Bright, W. J. Collis, H. T. Cookson,Hon. Darea Curzon, J. G. Davis 

 i New Zealand), Miss Dawson, Joseph Fallows, Miss E. Farrant, Lady 

 Finlay, George Groves, A. Hemsley, Mrs. H. Hudson, Miss S. L. D. 

 Kinnersley- Hooper, S. L. Kinnersley-Hooper, Arthur H. Lavie, Miss M. 

 Leach, Lady Leese, Robert Low, Mrs. E. Lynch, Mrs. G. MacCaul, 

 Thomas Maddison, F. J. Marnham, W. Menzies, Mrs. A. Norman, Miss 

 Hylda Paget, Mrs. Walter Parrott, Thomas Phelps, E. 0. Preston, Marl- 

 borough Pryor, J. Stewart Remington, F.L.S., J. Hall Renton, A. M. 

 Robertson, Mrs. Saltmarsh, J. Sargeaunt, Arthur R. Searle, Mrs. W. P. 

 Sinclair, Lady Katherine Somerset, Captain W. P. Standish H. Stanly, 

 Rt. Hon. the Earl of Tankerville, F. J. Tomlinson, Earl Waldegrave, 

 A. C. Walter, Mrs. Weiss, T. W. Wheatley, Robert Winlo, Arthur Win- 

 stanley, Mrs. L. Woodhead, James Allen Young. 



A lecture on " Heredity of Acquired Characters" was given by the 

 Rev. Professor G. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H. (see p. 77). 



At the close of the Lecture the following letters were read amid 

 acclamation : 



Royal Horticultural Society, 117 Victoria Street, S.W. 

 March 8, 1904. 



To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please Your Majesty, — We, the President and Council of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, sitting this day for the first time in the 

 second century of the Society's existence, most dutifully approach Your 

 Majesty with the prayer that you may be pleased to grant to our Society 

 the favour of Y 7 our Majesty's most gracious patronage. 



The Society is already happy in the support afforded by the patronage 

 •of Her Majesty the Queen, and it ever cherishes the recollection of the 

 patronage bestowed upon it by her late Majesty Queen Victoria during 

 the greater part of her glorious reign, and of the arduous labours so 

 ungrudgingly bestowed by His Royal Highness the late Prince Consort, 

 who as President directed and controlled its destinies for several years. 



We ever pray that the Almighty will grant Your Majesty long life and 

 peace and happiness, and trusting you will be pleased to grant this our 

 prayer, we humbly sign ourselves, 



Your Majesty's obedient servants, 



(Signed) Trevor Lawrence, President. 

 „ J. Gurney Fowler, Treasurer. 



„ W. Wilks, Secretary. 



Buckingham Palace, March 10, 1904. 

 Gentlemen, — I am commanded by the King to acknowledge the receipt 

 of your letter of the 8th instant, sent to His Majesty through the Home 



