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The following names of President, Vice-Presidents, Members of 

 Council, and Officers having been duly proposed and seconded, and the list 

 circulated in accordance with Bye-Law 74, and no alternative names having 

 been proposed, were declared by the President to be duly elected, viz. — 



As new members of Council. — Mr. W. A. Bilney, J. P., Mr. Harry J. 

 Veitch, V.M.H., Mr. Arthur L. Wigan. 



As Vice-Presidents. — The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., the 

 Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, Sir John 

 T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart., Baron Schroder, V.M.H., Sir Frederick 

 Wigan, Bart. 



As Officers.— Siv Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H. (Presi- 

 dent), J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (Treasurer), Rev. W. Wilks, M.A. (Secretary), 

 A. C. Harper, Esq. (Auditor). 



Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart., moved a vote of thanks to the 

 President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., which was seconded by the Rev. 

 W. Wilks, and carried unanimously. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR 1906. 



1. The One Hundred and Third Year.— The year 1906 has been 

 one of steady progress in every direction. 



2. International Conference on Genetics.— The distinguishing 

 -nark of the year has been the very successful Conference on Genetics, 

 when upwards of 120 scientific representatives of all nationalities gathered 

 together as the Society's guests. The Council wish to express the very 

 great pleasure which it gave them to welcome these distinguished persons. 

 Special thanks are due, in the first place, to Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S. 

 V.M.H. , for the most able and pleasant way in which he acted as 

 President of the Conference ; and, in the second place, to the Horticultural 

 Club and its President, Sir John Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart. ; to our own 

 President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H. ; and to Mr. 

 Leopold de Rothschild, for the sumptuous manner in which they enter- 

 tained the Members of the Conference, at dinner on July 31, and at 

 luncheon on August 1 and 3 respectively. Nor must the kindness of 

 Lieut.-Colonel Prain, F.R.S. , the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, be 

 forgotten in raceiving the foreign guests and other representatives when 

 they visited Kew. The authorities at the Natural History Museum were 

 also very good in personally conducting the party through the galleries 

 and drawing attention to the objects most likely to interest our visitors. 

 One and all vied with each other in their endeavour both to honour our 

 distinguished guests and also to make their visit to England a real 

 pleasure to them ; and it gives the Council peculiar satisfaction to have 

 been assured from all quarters that this endeavour was not in vain. Our 

 foreign visitors went home to their distant countries carrying with them 

 a most pleasant recollection of the geniality and hospitality of the friends 

 and Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



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