CXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
To Her most gracious Majesty the Queen— 
We, the President, Vice-President, and Members of the Council 
of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, beg to approach your Majesty 
with the offering of our loyal and heart-felt sympathy in the 
painful bereavement recently suffered by your Majesty and the 
Eoyal Family by the death of your beloved Daughter the 
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt, who had 
endeared herself to all your Majesty’s subjects by her noble 
qualities and genuine devotion to the good of all around her. 
We are deeply sensible how little words can do to lighten the 
bitterness of such a loss, hut your Majesty’s sorrow touches 
the heart of every one of your devoted subjects, and the Society 
we represent has received so many proofs of your Majesty’s 
favour and interest that we cannot refrain from expressing our 
profound sympathy with an affliction which many circumstances, 
have concurred to render especially poignant and trying. 
On behalf of the Council, 
(Signed) Aberdare. 
Duffryn , Aberdare, President . 
22 nd January , 1879. 
The following acknowledgment was received from General 
Ponsonby, dated Osborne, 25th January, 1879 :— 
Dear Lord Aberdare, 
I am commanded by the Queen to request that you will 
return to the Vice-President and Members of the Council of the 
Eoyal Horticultural Society, and to accept yourself Her Majesty’s 
sincere thanks for the kind and feeling expressions of sympathy 
with the Queen in her sorrow contained in the address you 
have transmitted to Her Majesty. 
(Signed) Henry F. Ponsonby. 
March 11, 1879. 
OEDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING. 
Lord Alfred S. Churchill, V.P., in the Chair. 
Fellows Elected.— Messrs. Bassett, C. Brown, W. J. Browne, 
C. J. A. Coote, F. Douglas, J. Groom, F. G. Heath, A. Larke, 
W. See, H. M. Pollett, J. Eobinson, F. W. Wood, and Mrs. 
Wyllie. 
