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Hobson, Mrs. Shad well, H. T. Smith, W. L. Sutton, S. Webb, S. 
Woolf, Mrs. Wright. 
The meeting then separated. 
REPORT OE THE COUNCIL TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL 
MEETING OF 12th FEBRUARY, 1878. 
The operations of the Society have, during the past year, been 
carried on with a completeness and efficiency which the Council 
did not venture to hope for at the time of the last Annual Meeting. 
The Scientific, Fruit, and Floral Committees were most assiduous 
in the performance of the duties which they have undertaken 
respectively, and the results of their valuable labours, and of 
many of the practical trials and experiments made at Chiswick, 
the Council hoped would have been made public in the Journal of 
the Society, which they attempted to recommence. Unfortunately 
the illness which terminated in the lamented death of Mr. 
Andrew Murray, whom they appointed to be its editor, prevented 
this expectation being realised. They have recently obtained 
the services of Mr. Samuel Jennings in the double capacity of 
assistant secretary and editor of the Journal, which they trust 
will shortly re-appear in a form worthy of the Society. 
The plants, flowers, and fruit shown at the ordinary meetings 
of the Society always present objects of great interest from their 
rarity or unusual excellence in point of cultivation, but the 
limited space available for their exhibition in the Council chamber 
necessarily restricted their numbers and interfered with their 
effective display. To remedy this inconvenience to some extent, 
and to enable Fellows to enjoy with more comfort to themselves 
the beauty of these exhibitions, the Council held them in the 
conservatory during the past season. The experiment proved 
successful beyond expectation; the cordial co-operation of the 
chief exhibitors rendered these unpretending meetings worthy of 
being classed as regular shows. The Council have the gratifica¬ 
tion of knowing that they afforded much pleasure to the Fellows, 
and they will resume them in March next. Fellows’tickets and 
small book orders will admit as on ordinary days. Cards giving 
