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long under consideration. The hint is so good and practicable 

 that it did not require much consideration, but there was not a 

 favourable opportunity of laying it before our readers till now. 



The intention of this notice is to urge all our correspondents 

 to send us their names and places of abode for publication in the 

 ' Phytologist.' It is further requested that, as there are many 

 readers of our Journal who are not contributors, our friends will 

 be so obliging as to supply us with the names, etc., of other 

 botanists who are willing to aid their brethren, and who would 

 not object to having their names published. We hope that 

 many of these will consent that their names may be sent for 

 publication. It is desirable to print and circulate a list as com- 

 plete as possible of the name and address of every botanist in the 

 United Kingdom, or in any of the colonies and dependencies of 

 the same. 



The object or design of this list is sufficiently obvious ; but lest 

 there should be any misapprehension on this head, let it be 

 observed that the list is intended solely for the purpose of help- 

 ing those who are more or less engaged in the study of plants, 

 or who take pleasure in such pursuits. It is not brought for- 

 ward either to increase the circulation of the ' Phytologist,^ nor 

 to increase the number of its correspondents. This may ulti- 

 mately be one of its beneficial results, but this is neither the 

 primary nor the proximate motive for bringing it forward. 



Few botanists who have been sojourning for a few weeks, or 

 only for a few days, in any particular locality, have not had 

 occasion to regret that, at some time or other or in some place 

 or other, they were not provided with such a list, especially 

 on hearing when it was too late that there was a resident botan- 

 ist in the place where they had just been, one who cotild have 

 materially aided them in their researches. 



Thi^ will in general be as gratifying to the resident or local 

 or provincial botanist as it will be to the botanical tourist. 



The interchange of knowledge and opinion, the relation of 

 personal observations and incidental scientific conversation, will 

 be mutually beneficial. The correspondence of naturalists is 

 always highly interesting and edifying, but personal intercourse, 

 blended with the amenities of science and literature, is still more 

 desirable. Few are they who will not heartily respond to this 

 invitation ! 



