THE 



BOTANICAL RECORD CLUB 



PHANEROGAMIC AND CRYPTOGAMIC. 



Ash field, College Road, Whalley Range, 



Manchester, 23rd August, 1880. 



Sir, 



In handing you a copy of the Rules of " The 

 Botanical Record Club," I venture to solicit your help in the 

 important work of extending the tabulation of the geographical 

 and altitudinal distribution of the native flora of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. Thanks to the life-long labours of Mr. H. C. 

 Watson in this comparatively neglected department of botany, 

 no country of the like extent can claim to have determined the 

 distribution of its phanerogamic vegetation with such fulness or 

 exactitude as Great Britain, nevertheless the annual additions 

 to the county records continue to be considerable; while for 

 our cryptogamic vegetation so little has been attempted in this 

 direction that an inexhaustible field lies open for investigation. 



The scope of the Club will be more fully understood by a 

 perusal of the accompanying Rules, and its previous work is 

 exhibited in the six Annual Reports which it has already issued. 

 It is intended to publish, from time to time, maps which will 

 show, in a graphic form, the area of distribution occupied by 

 selected species of plants in Great Britain and Ireland; but 

 the realization of this idea is dependent upon the degree of 

 support the Club may receive from botanists and other scientific 

 gentlemen interested in Phytogeography. 



Should the work of the Record Club commend itself to 

 your judgment, 1 beg the favour of your becoming one of its 

 members, and of your filling up and forwarding to me at your 

 eariy convenience the fly-leaf of this circular. 



I remain, Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 



CHARLES BAILEY, 



