282 MOSS EXCHANGE CLUB REPORTS. 
The author has been at considerable trouble to prepare the 
drawings for his figures from nature, and we commend his zeal, 
but we would suggest that some of them would have been clearer 
had they been larger. 
We should like to have been able to write a more appreciative 
review, but our feeling in closing the book is that the author has 
been perhaps a little too ambitious. The story of the evolution of 
plants is long and difficult, and still remains to be told within the 
narrow limits of a book such as the one before us. AoBe R 
Tse Moss Excuance Crus: Reports ror 1896-8. 
A somewuat detailed report of the working of this Club during 
the three years since its commencement in 1896 has recently been 
issued by the Secretary. The Club has each year shown a steady 
increase in the number of its members, of whom there are now 
their own specimens. It would ct 
society. It is also desirable to have a section for the exchange of 
Dicranum Bonjeani var. rugifolium, Fissidens adiantoides var. collinus, 
Tortula angustata, Barbula rigidula, 
nealis, 
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, which, although coming nearer to 4. 
vont, connects it somewhat closely with F’. squamosa, and renders 
the specific value of the former more doubtful. 
ll number of specimens only were sent in to be named by 
the Club referee. The report further contains instructions as to 
the mode of preparing the specimens to be sent in, and draws 
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sent in by each, and a balance-sheet, both of which show that the 
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be procured :—Rev, C. H, Waddell, Saintfield Vicarage, Co. Down. 
