EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 
CY11 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL 
MEETING OF 11th FEBRUARY, 1879. 
In presenting to the Fellows their Report of the operations of 
the Society during the past year, the Council are gratified to 
record a continuance of the improved interest in its proceedings, 
as evinced by the success of the various Shows and Meetings 
which, during the year now closed, have been remarkable for 
the spirit which has animated the Committees, and the unvarying 
energy displayed by all classes of Exhibitors. 
At no period of the Society’s history have the meetings been 
so well attended, or such important and interesting groups of 
plants and collections of fruit displayed; so that these ordinary 
meetings have in variety and beauty fallen little short of the 
greater Flower Shows. 
The meetings of the Scientific, Fruit and Floral Committees 
have been numerously attended ; and the members have been 
most diligent in the discharge of their honorary duties. The 
usual high standard of excellence both as to fruit and plants has 
been maintained; a complete list of the Certificates awarded 
will be published in the next number of the Society’s Journal. 
The Council have much satisfaction in recognising the valuable 
work that has thus been accomplished. 
In order to increase the general interest of the meetings of the 
Committees during the current year, and to give some direction 
to their work, it has been determined to award Medals for special 
exhibitions of plants, &c., in the groups designated for each 
successive meeting. 
Four parts of Yol. Y. of the Society’s Journal have been 
published during the year, the first of which, issued in January, 
was under the editorship of the late Mr. Andrew Murray. 
The contributed papers comprise Dr. M. C. Cooke’s exhaustive 
treatises “On the Fungoid Diseases of the Yine ”; a lecture 
delivered by the Assistant Secretary on the “ Cyclamen ”; a 
paper by Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S., “ On the Nomenclature of 
Garden Plants ”; notes by Col. R. Trevor Clarke “ On the 
Culture of the Fig as a Standard in the Open Ah* ”; “On Fern 
Sports,” by T. Moore, F.L.S.; “ On the Native Country of the 
Potato,” by W. B. Hemsley, A.L.S.; and “ On a Disease in the 
Ash,” by W. W. Saunders, F.R.S. 
