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My colleague, Mr. Harker, has been able, by the kindness 
of W. C. Lucy, Esq., to make a thorough examination of the 
herbarium collected about ten years ago by Dr. G. O. St. Bropy. 
This grand collection, comprising 1086 species and 105 varieties, 
was meant to be the basis of a county Flora, but the plan was 
abandoned, as was also a Flora of Clifton, commenced by Mr. 
M. J. Barrincton-Warp. Mr. Harker has also examined the 
herbaria of the Gloucester Museum and of the Philosophical 
Society. We have also lists of the Cheltenham College Her- _ 
barium and that of the late Dr. 8S. P. Woopwarp at the Agri- 
cultural College, Cirencester. Mr. Harxer has been further 
engaged in tabulating his observations, made during four years, 
in assisting correspondents and in observing the Juncacee, 
Naiadacee, Cyperacee, Graminee, and Umbellifere, especially the 
aquatic forms in the canals, along which he has made several 
canoe excursions. He has also made a search through the Pro- 
ceedings of the Club since its foundation, for all allusions to 
county plants, in which he has again to thank Mr. Lucy for loan 
of Proceedings. 
I, for my part, have been engaged in examining the British 
Museum Herbarium for Gloucestershire specimens, and in draw- 
ing up, in a tabular form, lists of the floras of Gloucestershire 
and the eight adjoining counties. Whilst prosecuting the 
former work I have been much indebted to the courteous counsel 
and aid of the officials of the Botanical Department, especially 
to Dr. Trimen and Mr. James Brirren, and to the ever-ready 
advice of the Rev. W. W. Newszoutp, whose work is always at 
the disposal of others. To Mr. T. B. Fitower of Bath, the Rev. 
T. Preston of Marlborough, Mr. James Brirren and A. Frencu 
of the Botanical’ Department, British Museum, I am indebted 
for lists of the floras of Somerset, Wilts, Berks and Oxfordshire. 
I have commenced a chronological examination of general 
works on British Botany, some of the results of which I hope 
shortly to lay before you in the form of a History of Botany in 
Gloucestershire. 
The general result of our work is that we now have records 
within the county of 1065 species of Flowering Plants, Ferns, &c., 
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