Xviii PROCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
February 19, 1878. 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Lord Alfred S. Churchill, Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of last Meeting were read and confirmed. The 
Assistant Secretary announced the awards of the Committees. 
'Elections. —Douglas Arden, E. Albert Rosanquet, Lt.-Col. 
Oswald R. Eeilden, Miss C. Godson, Otto Goldschmidt, Charles 
Haycock, Reginald R, Lempriere. Henry Nixon, T. M. Shad well. 
One Guinea Members Admitted .—Miss M. A. Adams, Mrs. 
Cockburn, Miss E. Haines, H. Hollingworth, J. Huish, H. Leah, 
W. H. Maturin, Miss Moorsom, Miss E. M. Piper, Col. T. H. 
Sale, J. Smith, Dr. Tulk, Mrs. Tulk. 
Mr. S. Jennings read a paper on the Cyclamen, which will be 
found in another part of the Society’s Journal. 
After some remarks by G. E. "Wilson, Esq., E.R.S., and Colonel 
R. Trevor Clarke, the Meeting adjourned. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, C.R., President R.S., in the Chair. 
Crocus.— Some very interesting forms of Crocus were exhibited 
by the Rev. Harpur Crewe, Colonel Trevor Clarke, and Mr. H. J. 
Elwes, amongst which were some apparently quite new. One, a 
very dark Crocus with slender leaves, was certainly a novelty, and 
was referred to Kew for further investigation. Mr. Crewe showed 
a large and very beautiful Crocus allied to C. Imperati from the 
mountains near Ravello, where it flowers a month or five weeks 
later than C. Imperati , from which it differs in its much larger 
size, the deeper mauve of the inner side of the petals, and the 
stripes on the outer side, which in C. Imperati are broad and 
feathered, and reach nearly the whole length of the petal, but in 
the Ravello form are narrow and scarcely feathered at all, and only 
exist at the base of the petal. It was found by his friend, Mr. 
Nevile Reid, of Amalfi, who is of opinion that it is a distinct species, 
Colonel Trevor Clarke remarked that C. insularis flowered a month 
