PAXTON MEMORIAL TRUST BURSARIESSource: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 110, No. 5070 (MAY 1962), pp. 366-367Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and CommerceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41369155 .

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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS MAY 1 962

University of Oxford, in the Chair. (The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides.)

TUESDAY, 29TH MAY, at 5.15 p.m. COMMONWEALTH SECTION. NEIL MATHESON MCWHARRIE lecture. 'Recent Discoveries in Early Canadian Arť , by R. H. Hubbard, M.A., Ph.D., Chief Curator, National Gallery of Canada. Sir Trenchard Cox, C.B.E., D.Litt., F.S.A., Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, in the Chair. (The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides. Tea will be served in the Library from 4.30 p.m.)

Fellows are entitled to attend any of the Society's meetings without tickets (except where otherwise stated) , and may also bring two guests. When they cannot accompany their guests , Fellows may give them special passes , books of which can be obtained on application to the Secretary .

Official representatives of Companies in association with the Society may also attend , with one guest .

THIRD ANNUAL RECEPTION

A separately printed slip was included in the last issue of the Journal , announcing that the Guest of Honour at the Annual Reception on 3rd May will be the Rt. Honble. the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Parker of Waddington.

EXHIBITION OF BURSARY DESIGNS

The exhibition of winning and commended designs submitted in the 1961 Industrial Art Bursaries Competition will be held in the Society's exhibition rooms (which are reached from 18 Adam Street) from Wednesday, 16th May until Friday, ist June. As announced in the last issue of the Journal , special cards of admission are required for the opening ceremony at 3 p.m. on 16th May. Thereafter the hours of ordinary viewing are as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

PAXTON MEMORIAL TRUST BURSARIES

In 1 96 1 the Society again offered the award of the Paxton Memorial Trust Bursary to assist British students taking up horticulture as a career to study its practice in the United Kingdom or overseas. The necessary funds are provided under the terms of the Paxton Memorial Trust, created in 1951 by the late Miss Violet Markham to commemorate her grandfather, Sir Joseph Paxton (1801-65), the celebrated gardener and designer of the Crystal Palace, and a former member of this Society.

Six applications were received, and the Council has decided to award Bursaries of £50 each to Mr. J. A. Dyter and Mr. M. J. Smith.

Mr. Dyter, who is at present employed by R. C. Notcutt Ltd., of Suffolk, believes that the nurseryman in this country should be able to advise the ordinary 366

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householder who wishes to have a well laid-out garden, stocked with a wide variety of shrubs, trees and plants. Having already visited America, Canada, and Dutch nurseries, Mr. Dyter proposes to use his Bursary to improve his knowledge of continental styles by visiting Valenciennes for the spring International Show, and also several Belgian nurseries.

Mr. Smith is now employed by the National Agricultural Advisory Service. He is interested in the effect of the Common Market on the development of horticulture, and with his Bursary intends to visit nurseries in Holland to see what can be learned from Dutch experience and practice in this regard.

These awards were made on the recommendation of an advisory committee appointed by the Council, and consisting of Sir Ernest Goodale (Chairman), the Earl of Radnor, Mr. P. E. Cross (a Fellow of the Society) and the Honble. Lewis Palmer (representing the Royal Horticultural Society, whose help in organizing the competition is gratefully acknowledged).

THE SOCIETY'S CHRISTMAS CARD

With past experience in mind, the Council has been considering what the subjects of future Christmas cards should be.

The vast paintings by James Barry in the Lecture Hall comprise the most important work of art in the Society's possession. Executed in situ between 1777 and 1783 to decorate the entire upper walls of the room, they offer a continuous series of beautiful and striking subjects conceived in analogy to the Society's work and purposes. As yet the paintings are comparatively unfamiliar to many Fellows. The Council has therefore decided to begin this year to reproduce them as Christmas cards in their correct sequence (though not necessarily without an interval of time) in the hope that the response from Members will eventually justify completion of the enterprise.

The subject of the 1962 card will thus be the first painting of the set, called 'Orpheus'. The underlying theme of the whole series is, in Barry's words, 4o illustrate this great maxim . . . that the obtaining happiness . . . depends on cultivating the human faculties', and this first composition shows Orpheus singing the advantages of culture to a people still in a primitive, untutored state. The picture will be reproduced in full colour.

When arrangements for the printing of the card have been completed, full details, including prices, will be announced in the Journal. Meanwhile, this Notice will inform Fellows of the Council's intention, and its earliness may be helpful to overseas members who are already thinking of ordering their cards for next Christmas.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The 208th Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Wednesday, 4th July, at 3 p.m., at the Society's House.

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