160 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
under the somewhat uncouth title of the ‘‘ Botanical prally Record 
the verificatio 
or expunging, of all old stations for rare plants, the publioatina of 
an annual manned of the exact seule’. and the formation of a herba- 
rium. Members are desired, three r four in each co unty, who will 
oasiek to carry out these objects in their respective districts by sending 
specimens t F, A. Lees, of Hartlepool, who after suthenti 
cation will forward them to Mr. T. B. Blow, of Welwyn, Herts, w 
will act as keeper of the herbarium. A subscription af five chines 
i i s that the 
tage 
series of invaluable works, the numerous county Floras, and the 
pages of this and other journals; whilst the public herbarium of 
whet as t 
destro. ed in a aes -_ unless the causes of its destruction are care- 
ran 
rare event for a species to be exterminated by the direct action of 
rarity-hunters, yet the publication in so wholesale a manner as pro- 
ed of the ‘‘ exact localities of all the rarer British plants ”’ is likely 
in some instances to lead to such a result, in which case the Re- 
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stations than are ever likely to be sieges by the more indirect 
operation of ordinary causes. We trust that in the interest of British 
Botany ‘the promoters of the scheme ‘wil reconsider its plan, and if 
need be direct their energies into some channel—such as an inquiry 
into the causes of extinction, the action of drainage, of railways, 
cultivation, &¢., on our flora—which would be at once of greater use 
to science, and less likely to do ha 
Botanical Prizes—The Bo tanical Society of Edinburgh offers a 
e 
uring at least one of the three Reiss aed the award, and has 
at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.—A ten gui 
— through the Council of the Botanical ligesel by Charles 
J sq., for the best and approved essay o tru an 
gepreduction of the Frondose and Foliaceous Jehecteneice Ce. 
prize is subject to all the conditions specified in the case of No. 1. 
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