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Votes of Thanks were passed to Mr. W. Iggulden (gardener to 
E. B. W. Baker, Esq.), for collection of Forced Fruit; and to L. A. 
Killick, Esq., for five dishes of Apples. 
May 21, 1878. 
OBDINAEY GENEBAL MEETING. 
Lord Alfred S. Churchill, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Elections .—Captain W. de W. Abney, E.E., F.B.S., Mrs. 
Gough Arbuthnot, Eev. W. M. Banks, Wm. Fulford Brown, Lieut.- 
Col. Henry Thomas Butler, Eight Hon. Sir Henry Cotton, John 
Foy, W. H. Hoiroyd, Thomas Tipping Lawden, William Lee, 
Mrs. Loch, Mrs. J. Fletcher Moulton, William H. Parry Okeden 
Admiral Eight Hon. Lord Clarence Paget, XCB., Joseph 
Eowlands, H. E. Sperling, David Syme, Acton Tindal, Arthur 
Powys Vaughan, Goorge Crosbie Wylie. 
Guinea Members Admitted. —Messrs. A. D. Mackay and J. H. 
Bainbrigge. 
The awards of the Committees were announced, and the 
Assistant Secretary made some remarks upon the more interesting 
plants exhibited. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, C.B., Pres. E.S., in the Chair. 
Variegated Acer .—Specimens of the leaves of an Acer which 
had sported into a scarlet variegation were shown, by the President 
on the part of Sir Philip Egerton, Bart., together with a letter in 
which he stated that this sport was first seen by Messrs. Hook and 
Yeats, of Chester, who said that a month ago the colour was most 
brilliant; they have succeeded in fixing and propagating the sport, 
and have now several plants. This tree, if constant, would be a 
great gain for landscape gardeners. 
Coccus on Rose. —Mr. Hiern exhibited twigs of a Marechal Niel 
Eose infested with a gigantic coccus, from a plant growing on an 
