ii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mrs. McComas, E. B. Milner, Mrs. G. A. Phillips, Mrs. A. Strahan, 

 M. M. Tannenbaum, Miss A. Welch, Mrs. W. E. White, Mrs. A. Whit- 

 worth. 



Fellows resident abroad (3). — Norman T. Baker (Johannesburg), 

 Prof. A. P. W. Thomas (Auckland, N.Z.), J. B. Willoughby (Brighton, 

 Canada) . 



Associates (5). — Miss A. B. Lindsay, S. Frankland Phillips, E. 

 Swinden, J. H. Watchorn, James Wells. 



Society affiliated (1). — Gresford Rose Society. 



A lecture on " Keeping Orchards Clean " was given by Prof. H. 

 Maxwell Lefroy, F.Z.S., F.E.S. (see p. 28). 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



February 9, 1915. 



Sir Harry J. Veitch, F.L.S., V.M.H., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the Annual Meeting of February 10, 1914, were 

 read and signed. 



Fellows elected (11). — Mrs. Bacchus, G. M. Ballhardie, Mrs. J. A. G. 

 Campbell, A. Clements, J. Edge-Partington, J. A. Jarrett, T. R. 

 Estall Lewis, Miss McCarthy, A. Mcllwraith, P. A. Skinner, W. Thorley. 



Society affiliated (1). — Heston Horticultural Society. 



The Chairman moved the adoption of the Annual Report. This 

 was seconded by the Treasurer and carried. 



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

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

 list sent round in accordance with Bye-law 74, and no alternative names 

 having been proposed, they were declared to be elected by the Council : 



As Officers.— Field-Marshal The Right Hon. Lord Grenfell, G.C.B., 

 G.C.M.G. {President), Mr. J. Gurney Fowler (Treasurer) , The Rev. 

 W. Wilks, M.A., V.M.H. (Secretary), Mr. Alfred C. Harper (Auditor). 



As New Members of Council. — Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T., 

 G.C.M.G., Sir Albert Rollit, D.C.L., Litt.D., Mr. James Hudson, 

 V.M.H. 



As Vice-Presidents. — The Duke of Bedford, K.G., F.R.S., The 

 Rt. Hon. The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, 

 Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., C.V.O., Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, 

 Bt., D.L., J. P., V.M.H. 



The following Resolution was proposed by Sir Harry Veitch, 

 seconded by Mr. James O'Brien, and carried unanimously : 



"That the Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society at their 

 Annual Meeting of this the 9th day of February 1915 desire to express 

 their deep and fraternal sympathy with the grievous losses suffered 

 in the course of the present war by the horticulturists of Belgium and 

 Northern France, and that they hereby request the President and 



