KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1899-1900. 
Vll 
Jan. 
31 
Feb. 
28 
Mar. 
14 
April 
18 
May 
2 
June 
13 
July 
25 
Aug. 
15 
29 
Sept. 
12 
26 
Oct. 
10 
>j 
24 
Nov. 
21 
A desire having been expressed that the so-called fortnightly meetings 
should be actually fortnightly throughout the whole year, it will be 
found by referring to the Book of Arrangements, 1900, that the Council 
have acceded to this request as far as it was possible to do so, having 
regard to such obstacles to absolute regularity as the Temple and 
Crystal Palace Shows and the occurrence of bank holidays. 
The lectures given at these meetings during the past year have been 
or will shortly be published in the Journal, and are as follows : — 
''The Orchards of Nova Scotia," by Mr. Cecil H. Hooper, 
F.R.H.S. 
" The Colours of Insects," by Mr. H. L. T. Blake, F.R.H.S. 
*' Experiments at Woburn," by Mr. Spencer Pickering, F.R.S. 
" Asparagus," by Mr. Geo. Norman, F.R.H.S. 
'' British and Alpine Floras," by Mr. G. A. Newell Arber, B.A. 
'' Rock Gardens and Streams," by Mr. F. W. Meyer. 
" Seed Dispersal," by Professor Boulger. 
Pruning," by Mr. R. P. Brotherstone. 
" The Soil and Plant Food," by M. Georges Truffaut. 
" The Drought of 1898," by M. Ed. Mawley, F.M.S. 
" Fruit Stations," by Mr. E. Luckhurst, F.R.H.S. 
" Injurious Scale Insects," by Mr. R. Newstead, F.E.S. 
" Growth of the Fruit Trade," by Mr. George Monro, V.M.H. 
" Fruit Growing in South Wales," by Mr. J. Basham, 
F.R.H.S. 
Besides these lectures the Rev. Professor Henslow, V.M.H. , has 
most kindly given several floral demonstrations short accounts of which 
have appeared in the Journal. 
A very courteous proposal has been received from the Richmond 
Horticultural Society inviting the Council, with the Fruit, Floral, and 
Orchid Committees, to git at Richmond, on the occasion of the local 
Society's Show in the Old Deer Park on Wednesday, June 29. 
This invitation has been cordially accepted, and the Committees will sit, 
and plants, &c., will be brought before them for certificate, exactly as if 
they were sitting at Westminster. Directions will be found in the book 
of "Arrangements, 1900." 
Ever since the great revival of the Society in 1887, questions have 
from time to time arisen as to the legality of certain of the Bye- 
laws. It has been urged that this or that bye-law was ultra vires, 
because it was apparently in conflict with the Charter. And when 
recourse was had to the two Charters under which the Society is in- 
corporated, the later (and therefore presumably the ruling) Charter 
was found to be so encumbered with matters relating solely to the 
South Kensington lease from the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibi- 
tion (which matters ceased in 1887 to have any further connection 
with the Society) that it seemed welhiigh impossible to separate the 
small residuum of the Charter that was still applicable to the Society's 
altered position from the mass of enactments which had become obsolete 
and irrelevant. 
