GENERAL MEETING. 
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names having been proposed, they were declared by the Chairman to 
be elected : 
As President.^- Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Lord Grenfell, 
G.C.B., G.C.M.G. 
As Vice-Presidents. — The Duke of Bedford, K.G., F.R.S., the 
Rt. Hon. The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., 
C.V.O., Sir John T. Dillwyn-Llewelyn, Bart., D.L., J.P., V.M.H., the 
Duke of Portland, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., the Right. Hon. James W. 
Lowther, P.C. 
As Members of Councils — Lieut.-Col. Sir George Holford, K.C.V.O., 
CLE., Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., Mr. Henry B. May, V.M.H. 
As Treasurer.' — Mr. J. Gurney Fowler. 
As Secretary.— -The Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., V.M.H. 
As Auditor.- — Mr. Alfred C. Harper. 
Mr. Elwes proposed that a sale of plants should be held at the 
Chelsea or Holland House Shows in aid of the " Red Cross Fund." 
Mr. Wallace suggested that it would be better to hold a two days' 
sale in the Hall, earlier in the year, as the date of the Chelsea Show 
would be a bad time for lifting plants. 
Mr. Wallace also suggested that Awards of the four grades of 
Cups should be given as heretofore at the Chelsea and Holland House 
Shows ; the award to be in name only, the Cups themselves not 
being given. 
Sir Albert Rollit said the Annual Report recorded a new and 
important development — the foundation of a Degree in Horticulture 
(B.Sc. and D.Sc. (Hort.)) at the University of London. His colleagues 
on the Council had been good enough to acknowledge and thank him 
for his services as Chairman of the Horticultural Degree Committee of 
the Senate of the University and the mover in the Senate of the 
resolution for the new degree. The work had been both long and hard, 
but the thanks must be shared with the Council and its Secretary, and 
with some he saw present, especially Dr. Keeble, Mr. Chittenden, and 
Mr. Wright; while the University Senate had received most favourably 
his proposition to establish the degree and to admit the Society's 
Wisley garden as a School of the University, though as to the power 
to do the latter he had found it necessary to reinforce his own opinion 
by that of Counsel, and the desired result was being secured. The 
Senate had also sanctioned a most important provision — that the 
Society's National Diploma in Horticulture shall be the condition and 
basis of the Degree Course, its possession by the student being necessary 
preliminary to his entrance for the Degree Examinations — and this 
also ensured the practical horticultural qualifications of all candidates. 
So now it would be open to any gardener to qualify himself — or herself 
— and enter as a candidate for a degree, and, he hoped, a University 
Scholarship and Medal, in horticulture, and this would have two effects 
of the greatest industrial and national value : It would encourage 
gardeners to be honourably ambitious of such practical, technical, and 
scientific knowledge as the degree involved, and stimulate the acquire- 
