EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



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Satton's Prize of £3 10s., to be divided amongst the Students at the 

 discretion of the Council; and the Nicholson Prize of £2 2s. a year, 

 given to the Student who shows the greatest power of practical observa- 

 tion on the fauna and flora of the Garden and District. A Prize of £5 

 has also been offered by Mrs. G. F. Wilson for the Student producing 

 the best collections of dried plants and insects, for which the Council 

 sincerely thank her. 



3. Innes' Charity.— An order has been made by the Charity Com- 

 mission respecting the Charities of John Innes, in the parish of Merton, 

 Surrey. The Charity provides for the foundation of a Horticultural 

 Institution at Merton for the promotion of Horticultural instruction, 

 experiment, and research. The Order institutes a Council of 12 Eepre- 

 sentative Members, nominated partly by other kindred institutions. 

 The Council of the Eoyal Horticultural Society obtained the permission 

 of Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., V.M.H., to nominate him as their 

 representative, and are glad to find that he has at once been appointed 

 Vice-Chairman of the Council of the new Institution. Professor Bate- 

 son, F.E.S., V.M.H., has been elected Director. 



4. Portraits. — (1) Baron ~ Schroder. — It is a matter of great 

 satisfaction to the Council to have at last secured a full length portrait 

 of Baron Schroder, to whom the Society has been, and still is, so greatly 

 indebted, and who in our Centennial Eeport was justly named The 

 Father of the Hall," for the existence of our present magnificent 

 building is due to Baron Schroder more than to any other single indi- 

 vidual. A splendid portrait of this benefactor (after Herkomer) now 

 hangs in the Council Chamber. 



(2) Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., V.M.H.— Another long 

 wished for portrait is also shortly to be hung, viz. that of the late 

 Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., V.M.H., the donor of the Wisley 

 Garden. The original artist of a portrait of which Sir Thomas thought 

 very highly, and which now hangs in his famous residence at La 

 Mortola, in Italy, is making a copy, which, on completion, will occupy 

 a place in the Council Chamber in company with the portraits of Baron 

 Schroder and Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., our President. 



(3) Information has also been received that a portrait of Mr. Harry 

 Veitch, V.M.H., by Hugh Eiviere, subscribed for by his friends, is 

 about to be presented to the Society. 



Perpetual memorials will thus be brought within the Council Eoom 

 of some of the most notable of those who have played a foremost part 

 in bringing the Society to its present prosperity and usefulness — men 

 whose memories will always be revered by those who follow after. 



5. Darwin Centenary.— The centenary of the birth of Charles 

 Darwin and the jubilee of the issue of his work, " The Origin of 

 Species," was celebrated last June at his old University of Cambridge, 

 and it was most fitting that the Society's Botanist, Professor Geo. 

 Henslow, M.A., V.M.H., whose father was a friend and confidant of 



