XXIV PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Wilson Saunders’ Prize. 
The Council desire to call the attention of Fellows to the concluding para¬ 
graph of their Yearly Report:—“ As a further inducement to experiment, they 
are enabled, through the liberality of a Member of Council [Mr. W. Wilson 
Saunders], to offer a prize of 10 guineas for the best Essay on the Growth of 
Tropical Fruits, which may be sent to the Council during the present year.” 
Imperial Agricultural Exhibition of Austria. 
The Council are desirous of calling the attention of Fellows specially to the 
accompanying letter from the Imperial Austrian Consul-General, and to request 
them to use their best endeavours to give the letter as wide a circulation as 
possible. January 26,1866. 
Sir,—The. Committee of the Imperial Agricultural Exhibition, which will take 
place at Vienna in May next, is desirous that the division representing matters 
pertaining : to horticulture and horticultural buildings should be well represented. 
As the English management and practice of horticulture, and all its branches, 
have been'so eminently successful, and are so highly thought of, the Vienna 
committee ■ would thankfully receive from the Royal Horticultural Society of 
England, and other societies in this country connected with horticulture, plans, 
sketches, and models hf farm-buildings, sheds, granaries, stables, and manufac¬ 
tories, plans for watering and drainage, and particulars connected with the 
management of forests. 
I trust, therefore, that you will be good enough to use your influence with 
gentlemen connected with horticulture, to induce them to exhibit the above- 
mentioned: objects, and as it is particularly desired that this branch of the 
Vienna Exhibition should be successful, I shall be happy to receive, with a view 
to communicating with them direct, the names of any other societies to which 
you may consider it would be advisable to write them on this subject, 
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
A. Rothschild, 
To the Secretary of the Horticultural Imperial Austrian Consul-Genera 1 , 
! Society in' London; 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETINGS. 
At a General Meeting of the Fellows of the-Society, on Tuesday, the 20th 
February, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., in the Chair, the following candi¬ 
dates were elected Fellows of the Society :— 
Baird’, Mrs., 5 Queen’s Gate, W. 
Broderick, John,. Field Cottage, Church End, Finchley. 
Browne, Colonel, R.E., C.B., 41 Elvaston Place, Kensington, W. 
Compton, Henry, junr., 13 Alexander Square, Brompton, S.W. 
Crowe, Captain Robert, 10 Kensington Gate, W. 
East, Mrs., 7 Curzon Street, May Fair, W. 
Eyre, Mrs. Vincent, 33 Thurloe Square, S.W. 
Franco, Mrs. Geo., 8 Eaton Place, S.W. 
Grant, Mrs., 3 St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Corner, S.W. 
Gray, Mrs., 26 Princes Gardens, W., and Darcy Lever Hall, Bolton. 
Jones, George, Landsdowne Terrace, Rosherville. 
Lascelles, Francis H., 5 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, W.C. 
Linklater,Mrs. John, 38 RutlandGate, S.W., and Salmons, Caterham,Surrey. 
Lloyd, Mrs., 1 Queen’s Gate Terrace, W. 
Maitland, Miss Caroline Fuller, 24 Onslow Square, S.W. 
Mouat, Dr., 45 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W. 
Normanby, the Dowager Marchioness, Hamilton Lodge, 9 Kensington 
Gore, W. 
