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terms and conditions as are hereinbefore contained with respect to 

 the Society or as near thereto as may be with a right to the authorities 

 of the Royal Gardens at Kew to appoint three nominees to act with the 

 Trustees as a Committee having such powers and duties as are conferred 

 on the Committee by these presents and if the authorities of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew fail to accept such offer within three calendar months 

 from the date thereof the Trustees shall thereupon make a similar offer in 

 all respects to and in favour of the Royal Botanical Society and if the 

 Royal Botanical Society shall fail to accept such offer within three 

 calendar months from the date thereof the Trustees shall make a similar 

 offer in all respects to some other Society or Association which may 

 appear to the Trustees to be suitable and appropriate for the purpose of 

 maintaining and utilising the Wisley Estate as an Experimental Garden 

 with a view to the encouragement and improvement of scientific and 

 practical horticulture. 



6. THE WISLEY ESTATE shall at all times be vested in not less than 

 three Trustees and the power of appointing new Trustees of these presents 

 shall be vested in the said Cecil Hanbury Ellen Willmott and John 

 Thomas Bennett-Poe and the survivors of them during their joint lives 

 and in the survivor of them during his or her life and after the decease 

 of such survivor in the Society until the determination of the trusts in 

 favour of the Society hereinbefore contained In the event of the number 

 of Trustees at any time being reduced below three it shall be the duty of 

 the surviving Trustees or of the Society as the case may be (but without 

 imposing any liability as for a breach of trust in the event of non-fulfil- 

 ment from any cause) at once to appoint a new Trustee or Trustees so as 

 to bring the number up to three. 



7. THE PRESIDENT and Treasurer of the Society shall as herein- 

 before mentioned at all times be ex officio two of the representatives of 

 the Society upon the Committee and the third representative of the 

 Society shall be such person being an officer of or a Fellow of the Society 

 as shall from time to time be nominated and appointed by the Council of 

 the Society who shall also be removable by the Council and accordingly 

 if and when the said Sir James John Trevor Lawrence and the said Joseph 

 Gurney Fowler shall respectively cease to hold the offices of President and 

 Treasurer of the Society (except and unless either of them shall hereafter 

 be nominated by the Council as the third representative upon the Com- 

 mittee as aforesaid) they shall respectively cease to be members of the 

 Committee and the succeeding President and Treasurer respectively shall 

 be ex officio members of the Committee in their places respectively jointly 

 with tbe Trustees for the time being and the third representative of the 

 Society and upon the death retirement or removal of the said Reverend 

 William Wilks or other the third representative for the time being of the 

 Society from the Committee the Council shall nominate another repre- 

 sentative in his place. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF the several persons parties hereto have 

 hereunto set their respective hands and seals and the Society has caused 



