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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
After the rearrangement concluded at the end of that eventful year of 
1887 the new Council and Officers were : — 
President. — Sh^ Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 
Treasurer.— Br. Morris, C.M.G. 
Secretary. — Rev. W. Wilks, M.A. 
Council. — Colonel Beddome. 
Sir Michael Foster, F.R.S. 
T. B. Haywood. 
Dr. Hogg. 
8ir Edmund Loder, Bart. 
George Paul. 
Baron Schroder. 
A. H. Smee. 
Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G. 
Harry J. Veitch. 
George F. Wilson, F.R.S. 
J. Woodbridge. 
Assistant Secretary. — Charles J. Grahame. 
Garden Su]_jerintendent. — A. F. Barron. 
It was this Council Avhich undertook, and laid the foundation of, the 
regeneration of the old Society, by bringing it back to its original design 
and limiting it strictly to a purely Horticultural policy. 
At the close of 1887 there appear to have been a total of 1,329 
Fellows, of whom 773 were Annual (i.e. subscribing) Fellows, and 550 
were Life Fellows, the whole of whose commutation money had been 
previously spent on paying part of the South Kensington debts, and who 
consequently brought in no annual income whatever to the Society. 
It is, however, only right to say that whilst the majority of these Life 
Fellows cared little or nothing for the Horticultural policy of the Society, 
a few of them, like Sir Trevor Lawrence, Baron Schroder, Sir Edmund 
Loder, Mr. G. F. Wilson, Dr. Hogg, the Earl of Ducie, Mr. Courtauld, 
Mr. Veitch, and others, afforded very generous financial help to save the 
Society from the absolute ruin which stared it in the face. 
How greatly the minority of the Fellows at that time resented the 
leaving South Kensington, and how little they appreciated the return to a 
purely Horticultural policy, is shown by the fact that at the end of 1887 
and beginning of 1888 no less than 221 of them resigned, leaving a total 
of only 1,108 Fellows, of whom 556 were Life Fellows and only 552 were 
subscribing ones. 
Of the 1,329 Fellows in 1887 only 773, as has been said, paid any 
subscription, and the subscription income of the Society during that year 
(1887) amounted to only i?l,938, which was raised to a total income for 
the year of £2,894 by means of £522 from sale of garden produce, and 
other miscellaneous receipts from the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, &c. 
The general result being that the new Council had to take over a debt of 
£1,152 ; a general annual expenditure (which could not possibly be much 
reduced) of £3,500 ; and a subscription income of less than £2,000 a 
year. 
