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it will supply invaluable aid for further research, as well to the 
student of physiography as to travellers, diplomatic agents and 
missionaries abroad. 
“The Committee is anxious that the printing should proceed 
pari passu with the preparation of the Report, and wou 
it an advantage that it should be issued to the public under the 
auspices of the Linnean Bosak 
“T, therefore, on behalf of the Committee, beg to offer the 
Re eport to ere Council of the Linnean Society on the following 
conditions 
“1, The Committee to have placed at its riba nei -" entire 
volume of the botanical series of the Journal of the Soci 
“2. The Committee to pay the entire cost of setting the opel 
in eas and of correcting the press. 
. The Committee to be at soi to print off at its own cost 
150 copies to remain at its disposa 
“4. The Linnean Society to bear the cost of P eaoee. for 
copies issued to Fellows, and for stock for sale by the Society. 
“5, Plates illustrating species of exceptional interest may be 
aap in the Report, at the discretion of the Committee, 0 
the e terms as those above stated with regard to the letter- 
rg 
“The Committee Snggents that the Report may be issued in 
parts to the Fellow 
“T have the honour to be, Sir, 
“ Your obedient Servant, 
“(Signed) JOHN BALL. 
“The President of the Linnean Society. 
“To these proposals the Council agreed, and Parts 1 and 2 of 
the Enumeration were issued in 1886. Copies of these and sub- 
sequent ones were freely “distributed amongst English resents 
in China, with the result inducing many to assist in the w 
of collecting specimens. ongst the earlier was Dr. Hours; 
at the time an officer in the “Ohta Imperial Maritime Customs. 
Down to the time of his leaving China in 1900, the collections 
made by this indefatigable botanist reached 15,700 numbers, each 
represented 8 numerous duplicates and amounting in all to some 
50,000 shee Henry’s collections revealed the existence of a 
flora of patie ing and atetiee cted richness, and raised problems 
of geographical distribution of the highest interest. 
“The erage a hoped that the Catalogue they contem- 
plated might be tained in a single volume of the Society’s 
sonnel But it amaitily became clear ‘that it would far exceed * 
mits. It was further rsp that the whole undertaking 
wold | be more poly 2 and laborious than was originally suger 
plated. In addition to three pens amounting in all to £700 
