Report of progress towards the completion of the Flora 
of Gloucestershire, communicated to the Annual Meeting of the 
Cotteswold Naturalist’s Field Club, April 2nd, 1878, by 
G. 8. BOULGER, F.L.S., F.G.8., 
Scientific Club, Savile Row, Wy. 
Mr. PresipENtT, GENTLEMEN,— 
T am happy to say that the appeal for help towards a proposed 
county Flora, which I made at our last annual meeting, has 
been most amply responded to. This is evidenced by nearly 70 
letters which I have received on the subject, from nearly 30 
different persons. I am glad to say that my intentions and 
“Preliminary Notes” were well noticed in the local and 
scientific papers, including the Journal of Botany, the Gardener’s 
Chronicle, Nature, and the Globe. On the day preceding our 
Cheltenham meeting I was kindly permitted to examine the 
herbarium of Miss Miruarp at Gloucester and on the day follow- 
ing that meeting I made the acquaintance of Mr. ALLEN HarkeER 
who had, I found, been some time collecting materials for a 
“Flora. We decided on a joint work and some twenty letters 
have been written by each of us to the other in the progress of 
our plans and their partial execution. 
We are particularly indebted to Major R. C. Barnarp, who 
has made over to us the result of many years work round 
Cheltenham, to James Cunrrt, Esq., of Loughton, Essex, for a 
list from Bourton-on-the-water, to Professor J. F. Duruie of 
Saharanpur, formerly of Cirencester and to Mr. T. F. Exton of 
the same town for lists from that neighbourhood, to the Rev. 
H. Exuacomse of Bitton for a list from that district, to W. E. 
Green, Esq., of Bristol, to Dr. Epw1n Lers of Worcester, to 
Miss Mizuarp, to J. Onzons, of Bromsberrow, to Miss ORMEROD 
and Miss E. A. Ormerop, formerly of Sedbury Park, and to 
G. S. Winrie, Esq. Help has also been promised by Professor 
Buckman, F. Townsenp, Esq., and the Rev. W. H. Purcuas. 
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