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ing (in point of beauty at least) have received much attention. Don 

 and others visited the above station at a time when the circumstance 

 was as evident as it is now. 



W. Anderson. 



Temstall, Sittingbourne, Kent, 

 Februrary 23, 1849. 



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Notes on certain British Plants for distribution by the Botanical 

 Society of London, in 1849. By Hewett C. W.vtson, Esq. 



Again, as in several past years, I have to request that the Editor 

 of the ' Phytologist ' will grant the use of his widely-circulated journal, 

 as the best medium for conveying to Members of the Botanical So- 

 ciety of London, some explanations about certain of the specimens 

 which have been lately contributed to the Society, for distribution 

 during the present year. 



While conveying these explanatory notes on the specimens, I wish 

 to avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded, for mentioning that 

 the present will probably be the last year in which I shall myself in 

 any way intermeddle with the distribution of British specimens from 

 Bedford Street ; and even this year I do so to a less extent than usual. 

 I have come to the determination of withdrawing from active interfer- 

 ence in future, mainly in consequence of not having found a suffici- 

 ently systematic cooperation with my own efforts, fully to ensure the 

 beneficial results which had been anticipated as the fruits of much 

 time and exertion bestowed by myself on the management of the dis- 

 tributions during the past five or six years ; partly, also, from finding 

 practical differences of opinion between myself and others, as to the 

 course which is requisite for efficiently continuing the distributions 

 on the large scale to which they have gradually attained by the in- 

 crease of members, &c. 



I am desirous of making this statement here, where it may be likely 

 to catch the eyes of members, with the object of thus publicly releasing 

 myself from all individual and personal responsibility in regard to the 

 future management of the Botanical Society of London. This could 

 not be the case while it was known to many of the members, and even 

 publicly avowed |by myself (see ' Phytologist,' ii. 1007), that I was 

 really taking an active and extensive participation in most of the 

 matters connected with the Society's distributions of specimens, 



