OPENING OF THE LABORATORY AT WISLEY. 



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The Prospectus and Syllabus of Instruction for Students has received 

 the approval and sanction of the Board of Education, under which body 

 this branch of work — viz. the training of students — receives recognition 

 as a technical school. A copy of the terms of the prospectus will be found 

 on pp. 339 to 346. 



The smaller laboratory is for experimental and research purposes, and is 

 fitted with a steam and a hot-air steriliser, an incubator for the cultivation 

 of organisms causing diseases in plants, a hot-water oven, paraffin bath, 

 a microtome, and a very powerful microscope with excellent lenses. Here 

 it is intended to investigate some of the difficult and obscure points which, 

 though constantly cropping up in practical gardening, still puzzle and 

 baffle the scientist to assign an approximate cause or suggest an appropriate 

 remedy for. 



A camera and other accessories are provided in the dark-room. 



An addition to the Society's Garden and to its far-reaching and 

 ever-extending influence is therefore now inaugurated ; and the Council 

 rejoices to see still another step forward in the great cause for which 

 it exists. 



The cost of the building has been about £1,000, the furniture, fittings, 

 and apparatus representing a further £600. 



At the Opening Luncheon to which the Society's guests sat down the 

 following toasts were given : — 



1. HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



Proposed by The President. 



2. THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Proposed by The Lord Avebury, P.C., F.R.S. 

 Responded to by The Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T. 



3. THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. 



Proposed by Sir William Chance, Bart. 

 Responded to by Sir Thomas H. Elliott, K.C.B. 



4. THE SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL. 



Proposed by Professor Michael E. Sadler, LL.D. 

 Responded to by Sir William Vincent, Bart., J. P. 



5. THE LORD AVEBURY, P.C., F.R.S. 



Proposed by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H. 



C. SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H., President of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society. 

 Proposed by Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart., D.L., V.M.H. 



The Peesident having given the toast of " The King," which was 

 enthusiastically received, 



Lord AvEBUfiY rose to propose " The Royal Horticultural Society," 

 and said : — 



While very sensible of the honour you have done me in inviting me to 

 open this interesting Laboratory I cannot but feel, especially when I look 

 round, that there are others who might have done so much more appro- 

 priately. One name especially — that of my friend Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 your President, who is himself so great an authority, and who has done 

 so much to bring the Society to its present remarkable state of prosperity 

 — will occur to everyone. 



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