GENERAL MEETINGS. 



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Secretary, and to inform you that His Majesty is pleased to accede to the 

 request of the President and Council of the Royal Horticultural Society — 

 to become Patron of the Society. 



I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 

 Your obedient servant, 



D. M. Probyn, General, 

 Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O. 

 J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 

 Rev. W. Wilks, M.A. 



This letter was unanimously ordered to be entered on the minutes, 

 and the following reply was directed to be sent to His Majesty : 



Eoyal Horticultural Society, March 22, 1904. 



To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 



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

 of the Royal Horticultural Society, being this day in General Meeting 

 assembled, would most humbly and dutifully convey to Your Majesty our 

 most grateful thanks for bestowing on us the favour and support of your 

 most gracious Patronage conjointly with that of Her Majesty the Queen 

 in commemoration of the completion of the first century of our Society's 

 efforts for the benefit and improvement of British Horticulture. 



At the same time we would also venture to approach Y r our Majesty 

 with the expression of our deep sense of grief at the heavy loss which 

 Your Majesty's Royal House has sustained by the death of His Royal 

 Highness The Duke of Cambridge, KG., beside whose grave the whole 

 nation mourns at heart to-day. 



No class of Your Majesty's subjects are more devotedly attached to 

 your throne and person than the Horticulturists of this Country, who 

 will ever pray that Y^our Majesty may long be spared to reign over this 

 happy realm. 



Signed on behalf of the Fellows, 



Trevor Lawrence, President. 

 J. Gurney Fowler, Treasurer. 

 W. Wilks, Secretary. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 April 5, 1904. 

 Mr. Bunyard, V.M.H., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (40). — C. Allen, G. F. 0. Bagnall, Miss Gertrude 

 Boulter, Alfred Brisco, Mrs. H. de V. Brougham, Mrs. A. H. Burton, 

 John Butler, D. A. Christie, Mrs. C. F. Churchill, Lady Cowell, Andrew 

 Crane, Howard Dickinson, Eric Drabble, W. Emerton, Hon. K. Forbes- 

 Sempill, Mrs. H. F. Fox, A. Freeland, Ruben Frogbrook, S. W. Fryett, 

 F. A. Hooper, Lawrence Johnston, Sir William Johnston, Bart., Mrs. H. 

 Lamotte, Colonel H. C. Legh, Mrs. Norman Leslie, A. H. Louis, Miss 

 X Maudsley, Mrs. A. Meysey- Thompson, Lady Nicholson, B. Othmer 



