N PROCEEDIN' GS GE THE ROYAE HORTICUETtJRAE SOCIETY. 
announcement was made by tbe Council to the effect that the 
Fellows and debenture-holders were to be admitted at twelve 
o’clock, while the guinea members and the public were to be 
admitted at one o’clock. Now it was, he repeated, distinctly said 
that the guinea members were to have every privilege with the 
exception of that of voting. He hoped that would be put right 
this year (hear. hear). As to the last paragraph in the report, in 
which the Council “ earnestly urge upon the Fellows the impera¬ 
tive necessity of using every effort to increase their numbers so 
as to comply with the condition imposed by the last agreement 
with Her Majesty’s Commissioners, and secure their tenure of the 
South "Kensington Gardens and the emancipation of the Society 
from its difficulties,” he, for one, hoped that would be the only 
tenure by which the gardens would be held. 
The President said he strongly agreed with Mr. Wilson 
that no distinction as to the admission of guinea members 
should be made. He now put the motion—“That the report be 
adopted.” 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
The following officers were unanimously elected :—President, 
Pight Hon. Lord Aberdare; Treasurer, Henry Webb; Secretary, 
llobert Hogg ; Expenses Committeemen, Lord A. Churchill, Henry 
Webb, and William Haughton; Auditors, 11. A. Aspinall, John 
Lee, and James F. West. The names of vacating Members of 
Council were F. Campion, W. P. Kellock, F.L.S., and T. M. 
Shuttleworth. The following were elected to fill the above- 
mentioned ordinary vacancies :—C. J. Freake ; Sir Trevor Law¬ 
rence, Part., M.P. ; and J. T. L. Llewelyn. 
Mr. Wills asked whether any preparations for the show at 
Preston were going on, and if so if they were progressing satis¬ 
factorily. 
The President replied that a local committee of influential 
gentlemen had been appointed, and they were acting with the 
Council. There was every reason to expect that the show would 
be a good one, and up to the present moment all the preparations 
were going on satisfactorily (hear, hear). 
Elections. —It. H. Peattie, Mrs. Arthur Plair, Miss Charlotte 
Powden, Capt. J. D. Pradley, Hon. Olivia Calthorpe, Pev. W. H. 
Cariss, James Cawley, Edwin Cooling, Mrs. Lancer, Edmund S. 
Hanbury, Arthur C. Curtis Hayward, F. Manuelle, Mrs. Mulhol- 
land, Maurice Powell, Miss Louisa E. Ramsden, Joseph Pawley, C. 
