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No. 4. New Series. April and May 1866. 
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CONVERSAZIONE. 
The President, his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., has named the even¬ 
ing of Tuesday, June 19th, for the conversazione. The conversazione will 
be open exclusively to Fellows, holders of Transferable Tickets, and Debenture- 
holders, who will be received by His Grace from 9 until 11. A military band 
•will perform. Evening dress. 
Transferable Fellows’ tickets for this year are mauve,* Fellows’ woft-transfer- 
able tickets are white; the Ten-Guinea Life Tickets are light blue; the colour 
of this year’s Debenture Tickets are dark blue. A carriage ticket is sent to each 
Fellow with this number of the “Proceedings,” giving directions for the setting 
down and taking up of carriages. 
Should anyone wish to have the carriage ticket sent for one Orchard House 
entrance changed for the other (there will be no admission at the south-east or 
Council Boom entrance), the exchange will be made on application at the 
Offices, at the Gardens. South Kensington. 
Befreshments—consisting of tea and coffee—will be provided. 
The Gardens will be closed at half-past 12 o’clock. 
Arrangements will be made for taking ladies’ cloaks, but not gentlemen’s 
hats.. 
Mr. Bateman’s Challenge Medal for Orchids. 
The award of this medal was announced in the last number of the Pro¬ 
ceedings. 
Mr. Veitch is the winnner of the prize, having scored the greatest number 
of marks for Orchids exhibited at the Tuesday meetings, at the end of each of 
two successive years. 
Mr. Bateman has received the permission of the Council to use the die of 
the Society for the medal he gives, on the reverse of which the following 
inscription has been engraved :—• 
“ BATEMAN CHALLENGE MEDAL, 
Awarded to Mr. Veitch, 
FOB OBCHIDS 
Exhibited on Tuesdays, at South Kensington, 
During the Years 1864 and 1865.” 
. This year Mr. Bateman has again offered his medal for competition, under 
similar conditions to the last. As, however, no person can win the medal 
twice consecutively, Mr. Veitch is at present debarred from entering the lists. 
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