JOURNAL 



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Royal Horticultural Society. 



Vol. XXXIII. 190H. 

 Part II. 



OPENING OF THE LABORATORY AND RESEARCH STATION 

 AT THE WISLEY GARDENS BY THE RIGHT HON. 

 LORD AVEBURY, P.O., F.R.S., JULY 19, 1907. 



To those closely connected with the Society, July 19, 1907, is a day to 

 be remembered, for it saw the inauguration of a long-wished-for and 

 patiently anticipated scientific Laboratory and Research and Experimental 

 Station, as a new and additional branch of the Society's work at Wisley, 

 under the direct control of the Council. 



For many years past the great want at the Society's Garden has been 

 a Laboratory for scientific research, to investigate some of the multi- 

 tudinous questions which are every day arising, connected with plant 

 diseases, plant pests, and the laws which govern plant life and develop- 

 ment. Wisley is an ideal spot for the carrying-on of such research, as 

 it is absolutely in the country, without a house in sight to contaminate 

 the air with its smoke — nothing but open commons and fields stretching 

 away in every direction. 



The opening ceremony was performed by the Right Hon. the Lord 

 Avebury, P.C., F.R.S., &c, better known perhaps to students of Natural 

 Science under the name of Sir John Lubbock. Invitations to the 

 ceremony were issued to those whose scientific or educational interests 

 link them with this new work of the Society, with the result that 

 about 100 guests were present. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., President 

 of the Society; occupied the chair, with Lord Avebury on his right 

 hand, and there were also present : — The Right Hon. the Lord Balfour 

 of Burleigh, Lady Lawrence, Sir John Llewelyn, Bart., and Lady 

 Llewelyn, Sir Wm. Vincent, Bart., J. P., Sir Win. Chance, Bart., J.P., 

 Sir Geo. Watt, CLE., the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn-Cecil, Sir Wm. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, F.R.S., K.C.M.G., Sir Albert Rollit, Sir Thomas H. Elliott, 

 Francis J. Marnham, Esq., M.P., Professor Michael E. Sadler, LL.D., 

 Miss E. Willmott, V.M.H., and Mrs. C. W. Earle, with other Members 



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