GENERAL MEETINGS. 



XV 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 March 21, 1902. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Y.M.H. (President of the Society), in 



the Chair. 



The Secretary read the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held 

 February 11, 1902. 



The Secretary read the notice calling the meeting : — 



Royal Horticultural Society, 



117 Victoria Street, S.W. 

 Notice is hereby given that a General Meeting of the Society 

 will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 21, at the Drill Hall 

 (London Scottish), Buckingham Gate, S.W., to receive from the 

 Council and, if approved, to adopt a report recommending a proposed 

 site for a horticultural hall and offices. 



Fellows are requested to show their tickets at the door. None 

 but Fellows will be admitted. 



By order of the Council, 



W. WILKS, Secretary. 



The following Report, which was circulated at the Meeting, was taken 

 as read : — 



Report presented by the Council to the General Meeting of the Society, 

 held on Friday, March 21, 1902, consisting of the Report of a Committee 

 to the Council and of a Memorandum of the Council. 



REPORT 



Presented to the Council of the Boyal Horticultural Society by the Neio 

 Hall Committee, February 25, 1902. 



Gentlemen, — Your Committee was appointed on June 4, 1901. It 

 consisted of Baron Sir Henry Schroder, Bart., Chairman ; Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., Y.M.H., Harry J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., Dr. Masters, 

 F.R.S., N. N. Sherwood, Esq., V.M.H., Rev. VV. Wilks, M.A., Secretary. 

 It has since been enlarged by the addition of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of 

 Ilchester and Henry B. May, Esq. 



The Committee was appointed " to consider the question of a Horti- 

 cultural Hall, and to report thereupon to the Council." 



Y^our Committee has held fourteen formal meetings, besides several 

 informal for the inspection of sites by various members of the Committee. 



At the first meeting Baron Schroder made a statement in regard to 

 finance, concluding with the words : " The financial part of the question 

 need not cause any insuperable difficulty." It was therefore decided that 

 the first matter for the Committee to engage upon should be the finding 

 of a suitable site. 



Five different sites have been very carefully inspected and enquired 

 into, with the result that four have been dismissed as unsuitable for one 

 reason or another. 



Your Committee strongly advise the adoption of the fifth site, which 

 they regard as suitable for the Society's purposes, all circumstances con- 

 sidered. They do not believe that any better site can be obtained which 



