vi PROCEEDING'S OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



15. Annual Progress.— The following table will show the Society's 

 progress in regard to numerical strength during the past year : — 



Loss by Death in 



1904. 









£ 



s. 



d. 



Life Fellows . . 27 . 



. 0 



0 



0 



4 Guineas . 1 . 



. 4 



4 



0 



2 „ . . 27 . 



. 56 



14 



0 



1 „ . . 49 . 



. 51 



Q 



V 



u 



104 



1112 



7 



0 



Loss by Resignation tic 









£ 



s. 



d. 



2 Guineas . . 41 . 



. 80 



2 



0 



1 . 299 . 



. 313 



19 



0 



Associates . . 13 . 



. 0 



10 



0 



Affiliated Societies 12 . 



. 12 



12 



0 



365 



£419 



9 



0 



Total Loss 469 



£531 



10 



0 



Fellows elected 



4 Guineas 



2 



1 



Associates 



15 

 547 

 748 



27 



Affiliated Societies 29 

 Commutations 17 

 = £430 10s. Od. 



in 1904. 



£ 



. G3 

 1,148 

 . 785 

 . 14 

 . 31 



s. d. 



0 0 



14 0 



8 0 



3 0 



10 0 



Net 



1,383 £2,042 15 0 

 Deduct Loss . . 531 10 .0 

 Increase in Income £1,510 19 0 



914 



The total number of Fellows, Members, Associates, and Affiliated Societies is now 8,300 



New Fellows &c. ... 

 Deduct Resignations and Deaths 



Numerical Increase . 



16. The Journal. — The Journal still continues to he highly valued 

 hy the Fellows. During the past year Parts 3 and 4 of Vol. xxviii. have 

 heen issued, and hefore this Report is sent out it is hoped that Parts 1 and 

 2 and a portion of Part 3 of Vol. xxix. will have been published and issued 

 to the Fellows. The publication of Vol. xxix. has been purposely delayed 

 in order to assist the finance of the Society, which has this year needed 

 great care and management, but the Journal has only been delayed a 

 couple of months at the most. The Council take this opportunity of again 

 thanking the writers of papers and the compilers of Abstracts for their 

 generous and ready assistance in thus enabling the Society's Journal to 

 take a foremost place among the publications of the Scientific Societies of 

 Europe. 



17. The Library.— The room in which the Library will in future be 

 housed has been admirably furnished and fitted, through the liberality of 

 Baron Schroder, who, besides his original subscription of £'5,000 to the 

 Hall, has most generously defrayed the whole cost of moving the Library 

 and housing it worthily. The heating and the lighting, both by day and 

 by night, are excellent, and as the accommodation is now double what it 

 was in Victoria Street, donations of suitable books will be most gladly 

 welcomed. 



18. Examinations.— The Society's Twelfth Annual Examination in 

 the Principles and Practice of Horticulture, for which 190 entries were 

 received, was held at sixty- six local centres on Wednesday, April 20, 1904. 

 In view of the increasing demand in country districts that the School- 

 masters should be competent to teach the elements of Cottage Gardening, 

 and the absence hitherto of any test whatever of such competence, the 

 Society also held on Tuesday, June 21, an Examination for Elementary 

 and Technical School Teachers only, for which 124 entries were received. 

 The results of these Examinations will be found in the Journal (Vol. 

 xxix., pages 161, 166). These Examinations will be repeated in 1905, on 

 April 12 and April 5 respectively. 



