NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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unique and valuable collection of books which it contains, and as the shelf 

 accommodation is at least double what it was in Victoria Street the 

 Council hope that all Fellows will send such horticultural and botanical 

 books as they can spare from their own shelves, as well as any articles 

 and papers they may themselves publish on such subjects. 



16. LETTING OF HALL. 



Fellows are earnestly requested to make known among their friends 

 and among other institutions that the Royal Horticultural Hall is 

 available, twelve days in each fortnight, for Meetings, Shows, Exhibitions, 

 Concerts, Conferences, Lectures, Balls, Banquets, Bazaars, Receptions, 

 and other similar purposes. The Hall has a floor surface of 13,000 square 

 feet. It is cool in summer and warm in winter. For a Concert it will 

 seat 1,500, or for a public meeting 2,000. It is undoubtedly the lightest 

 Hall in London, and its acoustic properties have been pronounced excel- 

 lent by some of our greatest authorities. The charges, which are very 

 moderate, include lighting, warming in winter or cooling of the air in 

 summer, seating, and use of trestle-tabling and platform. The first floor, 

 consisting of four fine rooms, may also be hired for similar purposes, 

 either together with or separately from the Great Hall. This accommoda- 

 tion can also be divided up if desired. Ample cloak rooms for ladies 

 and for gentlemen are available. In fact, the Hall is not only the most 

 suitable Hall in London for special shows of a high-class character, but 

 it is also second only to the Queen's Hall and the Royal Albert Hall for 

 the purposes of Concerts and Meetings. Reduction is made to Charities, 

 and also to Societies kindred or allied to horticulture. The regulations &c. 

 for hiring the Hall are printed in the " Book of Arrangements," and full 

 particulars may be obtained on application to the Secretary, R.H.S., 

 Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., with whom dates may be booked. 



17. EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, AND LECTURES 



IN 1906. 



A full programme for 1906 will be issued about the end of January 

 1906 in the "Book of Arrangements " for 1906. It will be noticed that 

 an Exhibition and Meeting is held in the Royal Horticultural Hall 

 practically every fortnight throughout the year, and a short lecture on 

 some interesting subject connected with horticulture is delivered during 

 the afternoon. Special Fruit and Flower Shows have also been arranged 

 on days other than those of the Society's own Exhibitions. 



A reminder of every Show will be sent in the week preceding to any 

 Fellow who will send to the R.H.S. Offices, Vincent Square, S.W., a 

 sufficient number (30) of halfpenny cards ready addressed to himself. 



18. THE TEMPLE SHOW. 



The nineteenth great annual Flower Show in the Inner Temple 

 Gardens, Thames Embankment, will be held, by kind permission of the 

 Treasurer and Benchers of the Inner Temple, on Tuesday, Wednesday, 

 and Thursday, May 29, 30, and 31. 



