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spent), the number has steadily increased, until on January 1, 1901, we 
have — 
(1) The debt of igl,152 wiped off. 
(2) An income of £8,000 a year. 
(3) The Society's Journal, which had fallen into abeyance^ 
revived. 
(4) A sum of £10,287 invested— not including the £2,122 of the 
Davis and Parry Trusts ; 
(5) 4,750 Fellows, &c., of whom only 250 are Life Fellows of the 
old regime ; and 
(6) Notwithstanding the enormous increase in the number of 
Fellows, and of clerical work in the preparation of the Journal, 
general correspondence, office work, &c.,' the office staff, which in 
1887 consumed 17^ per cent, of the Society's income, in 1900 only 
required 8^ per cent. 
The President and Council may, we think, look back with something 
more than satisfaction on the success which has crowned their efforts, and 
their best hope for their successors for the next twelve years must be that 
the year 1913 may show as marked an improvement in the prosperity of 
the Society over 1901 as 1901 does over the commencement of 1888. 
The following form the Council and chief Officers to-day : — 
President — Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., V.M.H. 
Vice-Presidents — The Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie. 
The Right Hon. Lord Rothschild. 
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. 
Baron Sir Henry Schroder, Bart., V.M.H. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., M.P. 
Treasurer — J, Gurney Fowler. 
Council — John T. Bennett-Poe. 
Rev. Hugh Berners, M.A. 
George Bunyard, V.M.H. 
Captain G. Lindsay Holford, CLE., M.V.O. 
James Hudson, V.M.H. 
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ilchester. 
Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, Bart. 
Frederick G. Lloyd. 
William Marshall. 
Henry B. May. 
Alfred H. Pearson. 
Charles E. Shea. 
Harry J. Veitch, F.L.S. 
Professor of Botany — Rev. Geo. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H. 
Consulting Chemist — Dr. Augustus Voelcker, M.A. 
Foreign Corresponding ) Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. 
Secretary i 
Secretary— Be\. WilHam Wilks, M.A. 
Garden Superintendent — S. T. Wright. 
Cashier- — Frank Reader. 
