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Copies of the above report were sent to various 
Natural History Societies, with the following letter, drawn 
up by Mr Mellersh, and signed by the President :— 
CHELTENHAM, April, 1903 
Dear Sir,—Recently it was proposed to form in Glou- 
cestershire an Association for the Protection of Wild 
Plants upon the lines of the Devonshire Association. 
The Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club was asked for its 
advice and approval. The Club, seeing that the matter 
was full of difficulties, referred it to a Committee. 
After a thorough investigation of the facts and of 
various evidence, and after much correspondence, a visit 
to Devonshire by one of the Committee, and an interview 
with Mr G. Claridge Druce, F.L.S. (Author of “ The Flora 
of Oxon,” “The Flora of Berks,’ &c.), the Committee 
have issued their Report. The Club has adopted this 
Report, and passed Resolutions based upon it. 
At the interview with Mr Druce he stated that as regards 
the amendment of the law (wde the Report) he had 
already seen Lord Avebury, and intended seeing him again 
about it this summer. At the same time he said that it 
would strengthen the hands of the framers of any Bill, if 
they received the Resolutions of the chief Natural History 
Societies on this question of amendment; he also asked 
the Secretary of the Committee to obtain these Resolutions 
for him where possible. 
As the questions have been thoroughly discussed by the 
Club, it thinks that copies of the Report and Resolutions 
may be useful to kindred Societies, in starting them upon 
a consideration of the questions, and it has decided that 
such copies shall be sent to these Societies. 
If any Resolutions are passed by these Societies on the 
question of an amendment of the laws, and are sent to the 
Secretary of the Committee referred to (W. L. Mellersh, 
