EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 
CXI 
In order to meet the wishes expressed by many of the Fellows 
of the Society, it has been arranged to include seeds of useful 
vegetables not ordinarily found in Trade Catalogues in the dis¬ 
tributions of the coming season. 
The Council again express their desire to open correspondence 
with foreign and colonial Horticulturists with a view to the 
exchange of plants and seeds, and they trust that the Fellows of 
the Society will assist them in carrying out so desirable an 
arrangement. Letters on this subject should he addressed to 
the Assistant Secretary, South Kensington. 
At South Kensington several improvements have been effected 
in the Gardens. It has been necessary to supply new boilers 
both to the Palm House at Chiswick, and to- the Conservatory 
at South Kensington. 
The Fellows of the Society are aware that the last agreement 
entered into between H.M. Commissioners and themselves, with 
respect to the occupation of the South Kensington Gardens, 
terminated at Christmas last. Under this agreement H.M. 
Commissioners waived their right of re-entry until the close of 
the original term of occupancy, viz., June, 1892, provided the 
Society could, in the three years ending the 25th December, 1878, 
raise its annual income from subscriptions to £10,000. The efforts 
of the Council to fulfil this condition have failed; and the Commis¬ 
sioners have therefore the right to exercise their power of re-entry. 
No intimation has as yet been received from them that any sub¬ 
stantial alteration in the occupation of the Gardens is at present 
intended; and the Council venture to hope that arrangements 
may he made by which the connection of the Society with these 
Gardens, in all those respects in which that connection lias 
been beneficial to the best interests of the Society, may still be 
maintained. But whatever may be the ultimate decision of the 
Commissioners, the Council is convinced that no measure 
which they may resolve upon in the discharge of their trust 
as managers of the estate of which the Gardens form part, will 
he adopted without the utmost consideration to the fair claims 
of the Society and its position as a scientific association of 
established usefulness and eminence. 
During the past year 197 free monthly tickets have been issued 
to Students in the Science and Art Schools, to enable them to 
pursue theff studies from nature in the Gardens and Con- 
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