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consultation by any member of the Society. After consulting 
with Miss Hannay I have thought the best plan will be to keep it 
in her house, 1 Victoria Terrace, as a fire cannot be kept in the 
Society’s Rooms during winter. Miss Hannay has, however, 
kindly saved us all risk in this respect, and members of the Society 
are cordially invited to inspect it. 
The Hieracia and certain other doubtful forms will be sent to 
the Rev. E. F. Linton, of Bournemouth, who has very kindly 
offered to name all for us and return them. His knowledge of 
British plants is extremely correct and of great width. 
We have received plants from a large number of members of 
the Society and others, and some have been extremely valuable 
consignments indeed. It would be invidious to particularise, so I 
simply append a list of our benefactors : Miss Aitken, Miss Babing- 
ton, Mrs Gilchrist Clark, Miss Copland, Mr J. Corrie, Mrs Grierson, 
Miss Hamilton, Mr J. T. Johnstone, Revs. E. F. and W. R. Linton, 
Miss Milligan, Mr J. Rae, Miss Reid, Mr R. Rimmer, Mr J. Shaw, 
Miss Ethel Taylor (2 sendings), Miss Tennant, Mrs Thomson, Mrs 
Carthew-Yorstoun. The rest have been collected by the Misses 
Hannay and myself. 
A special notice, however, is required of Mrs Grierson’s muni- 
ficent bequest of the herbarium of the late Dr Grierson to the 
Society. This herbarium is so complete and so accurately named, 
carefully mounted and prepared, that it is a most valuable bequest, 
and will, I hope, lead to a great botanical revival in Dumfries. It 
is also, however, a responsibility to the Society, and should, I hope, 
be much used next summer. 
I hope next summer to begin exchanging duplicates both with 
members and other societies. This summer I have forwarded some 
to the Kirkcudbright Museum, which have been acknowledged by 
Mr Watson, curator. Next year I hope to do this on a more 
extended scale. 
8th September, 1890. 
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