EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 October 12, 1897. 

 Mr. Harry J. Veitch, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (23). — H. T. Armitage, J. R. St. Barbe Baker, 

 Mrs. D. Bartholomew, John Bentley, junr., H. Dunkin, H. F. 

 Getting, Henry A. Hebeler, Mrs. Heldmann, Rev. J. J. John- 

 stone, Lady Evelyn Mason, Henry J. Morison, Joseph M. Moore, 

 Mrs. Parr, C. W. Payne, W. Potten, T. Russell, B.A., Mrs. 

 Swinley, W; Sydenham, J. Vert, Miss Eunice Watts, John 

 Williams, Mrs. Wrigley, H. Pasteur. 



A lecture on " Some Curiosities of Orchid Breeding " was 

 given by Mr. C. C. Hurst. {See p. 442.) 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 October 26, 1897. 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (4). — John C. Colvill, Alfred E. Leggett 

 Walter Speed, C. Aubrey Watts. 



The lecture announced for this meeting was postponed, and 

 instead thereof, at 3 o'clock, the Victoria Medal of Honour, con- 

 ferred by the Council in celebration of Her Majesty's Diamond 

 Jubilee, was distributed to the sixty recipients by the President. 

 {See p. 571.) 



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