GENERAL MEETINGS. 



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attendants ; the tables will be set up by the R.H.S., and all R.H.S. 

 Tickets must be admitted free. 



(3) A kindred Society unable to admit R.H.S. Tickets must negotiate 

 for the use of the Hall on the ordinary scale of charges for letting. 



23. Reduced Railway Fares. — At the request of a large number 

 of Fellows, the Council prepared a Petition to the Railway Companies 

 of Great Britain, asking for similar privileges of reduced railway fares 

 to those granted to some other Societies. The Petition was signed by 

 nearly 3,000 Fellows, and met with a courteous but decided refusal. (See 

 vol. xxxiii. p. 565.) 



24. Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., K.C.M.G., &c., &e.— In June the 

 Council had the pleasure of sending to Sir Joseph Hooker the hearty 

 congratulations of the Society on the attainment of his ninetieth birthday, 

 to which Sir Joseph made a most interesting reply, which will be found 

 in the account of the opening of the Wisley Laboratory in the Society's 

 Journal, vol. xxxiii. p. 337. 



25. Committees, &C. — The hearty thanks of the Society are again 

 due to the Members of the Committees, the Judges, the Lecturers, the 

 Writers of Papers communicated to the Journal, the Compilers of 

 Abstracts, and last, but by no means least, to the several Examiners, and 

 to others who, by their self-denying work in the Society's service, have 

 largely contributed to the success of the past twelve months, and to the 

 high position held by the Royal Horticultural Society among the practical 

 and scientific Societies of the world. 



By Order of the Council, 



W. WILKS, Secretary. 



Royal Horticultural Society, 



Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. 

 December 31, 1907. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 March 3, 1908. 

 Mr. Harry J. Veitch, F.L.S., V.M.H., in the Chair. 



Felloivs elected (101). — T. Alexander, Lady Alington, Major-Gen. 

 J. H. Allen, R. Archer, Miss H. Banner, Miss E. Barlow, Miss F. Bean, 

 Miss M. Beeton, Lady Bingham, Lady Blake, Mrs. C. Bone, Miss Brad- 

 shaw, C. J. Bromhead, Mrs. Bromley, Mrs. Buchanan, W. D. Buncombe, 

 Miss C. M. Burnaby-Dyott, Miss S. Caldecott, Miss O. Charlton, Miss 

 J. B. Charters, C. du P. Chiappini, E. H. Christy, C. P. Clayton, Miss 

 Clifford, Miss Cory, A. J. Cowling, Mrs. E. Cree, Lady Cunningham, Mrs. 

 G. Darrochy, W. M. Day, Baroness de Brienen, W. C. Dicks, Lady Dobson, 

 O. Durant-Parker, Mrs. H. V. Ellis, Viscountess Encombe, Mrs. Erith, 

 John F. Evans, W. Everett, H. R. Farmer, Mrs. E. Firth, Mrs. Fleming, 

 A. E. Gibbs, I. Godber, Mrs. E. M. Grant-Dalton, R. Gurney, Goodwyn 

 Hall, L. H. Hailing, J. C. Hanbury, Lady Maud Hastings, Mrs. C. Healey, 



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