REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



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Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. 



Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart. 



The following have been nominated as Officers : — 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., V.M.H., President. 

 Mr. J. Gurney Fowler, Treasurer. 

 Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., Secretary. 

 Mr. Alfred C. Harper, Auditor. 



No other names having been proposed, there is consequently no need to 

 issue a balloting list. 



12. Deputations, &C. — Early in the year the Council were invited 

 to nominate two representatives to sit on the Board of Examiners 

 appointed by the University of Oxford in connection with the 

 Horticultural Department of Reading College. The Council were 

 fortunate in obtaining the consent of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ilchester 

 and Mr. Arthur W. Sutton, V.M.H., to act as the Society's representatives. 

 On February 16, 1904, the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 

 celebrated their Jubilee, and the Society was represented on that occasion 

 by Mr. A. D. Webster, F.R.H.S. The Royal Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society will be celebrating their centenary in the forthcoming year, and 

 the Council have accepted an invitation to send a deputation to 

 Edinburgh for the great show on September 12. The Council have 

 accepted another invitation to send a deputation to Paris in connection 

 with the International Horticultural Exhibition to be held there in May 

 1905. 



13. Victoria Medal of Honour.— The Council regret to have to 

 record the death of the following holders of the Victoria Medal of Honour 

 in Horticulture (V.M.H.) during the past year, viz. : — The Very Rev. S. 

 Reynolds Hole, D.D., Dean of Rochester, the Rev. C. Wolley Dod, M.A., 

 and Mr. Hermann Herbst. There being also a vacancy left over from 

 1903. caused by the death of Mr. James Smith, of Mentmore, the 

 Council, in order to complete the full number (63) of the holders of this 

 medal, have appointed the following gentlemen to this distinction in 

 recognition of their great services to Horticulture : — The Rt. Hon. the 

 Lord Redesdale, Mr. Thomas Challis, Mr. Alexander Dean, and Mr. 

 Edward Mawley. 



11. Deceased Fellows. — Among the other Fellows whose loss 

 since January 1, 1904, the Council have to regret are H.R.H. the Duke of 

 Cambridge, K.G., Major-General Abbott-Anderson, The Lord Alington, 

 Rev. John Climenson, Hon. Francis C. Drummond, Rev. Andrew Foster- 

 Melliar, The Viscountess Glentworth, Professor Carl Hansen (Copenhagen), 

 Rt. Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, The Lord Harlech, Col. Lawrence 

 Heyworth, Hon. E. H. Johnstone, Hon. Mrs. Edward Kenyon, Robert 

 McLachlan, F.R.S., Frank Adolf Render, Hon. P. L. C. Shepherd 

 (Sydney, N.S.W.), The Earl of Strathmore, The Lady Tweedmouth, Hon. 

 Mr. Justice Wright, The Lord Wynford, Col. C. Wynne-Finch, and Hon. 

 Mrs. Yorke. 



