xlviii BepoH to the General Meetinrj^ May 22, 1888. 
5s. to Is. per sample, made in tlie fees payable to the Consulting 
Botanist for the determination of seeds. 
28. Twenty-four candidates have entered for the Senior 
Examination, to be held in the Society's house on Tuesday, 
May 8, and four following days. This entry is the largest in 
any year since the establishment of the examination in 1868, 
with one exception, viz. 1883, when twenty-six candidates 
entered.' 
29. The Council have approved New Regulations for the 
Junior Examinations, which have been drawn up so as to make 
Agriculture the dominant subject, and to prevent a candidate 
receiving more than one scholarship. The revised Regulations 
are printed for general information in the current number of 
the Journal. 
30. The alterations in the Society's house are now complete. 
The library has been reclassified and rearranged, and is now 
available for the use of Members. In order to enable members 
of the Society to complete their sets of the Journal, and to 
purchase at a reduced price the numbers issued in years before 
they were elected, the Council have resolved that Governors and 
Members may, for a limited period, have the privilege of pur- 
chasing any of the back numbers of the Journal at three 
shillings per copy, i.e. half the present publishing price ; or if 
not less than twelve numbers are purchased at the same time, 
at two shillings per copy. 
By order of the Council, 
ERNEST CLARKE, 
Secretary. 
' The results of this examination were announced at the meeting of Council 
on the 6th June, 1888. The following three candidates, placed in order of 
merit, were granted first-class certificates and the life membership of the 
Society, besides qualif^'ing for the prizes stated below : — (1.) William Somer- 
ville, Prize of 25Z. (2.) Devendra Nath Mookerji, Prize of 15^. (3.) Syad 
Mohammad Iladi, Prize of lOZ. In addition to the above, a second class 
cert ificate was awarded to Walter Frank Perkins ; and special certificates 
(entitling to the life membership of tlie Society) to John Bardgett, Ernest 
Eniilius Bennett, Ilcnry James Colbourn, and Alfred Henry Inman. — [Ed.] 
