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IV. A third object of the Club shall be the exemplification 

 of geographic plant-distribution (first phanero-, then crypto-gamic) 

 by means of outline county maps, so displayed as to indicate the 

 various ' types ' of distribution, best discernible in such way, for 

 selected representative species. 



V. It shall be an essential characteristic of the work of the 

 Club that every record must be qualified for a place in the annual 

 Report by a Voucher for its accuracy and bona-fide nature — in 

 the shape of a well-selected specimen (from the locality specified 

 on its label) of a size and character sufficient for its safe identifi- 

 cation. These vouchers shall alone form the material for the 

 Report, save and except such manuscript notices of extinctions 

 of species, or of errors requiring correction, as it may be found 

 necessary to publish. 



VI. The plant contributions of each season, after usage 

 for the Report, shall become Government property, and with 

 that intention shall each year be forwarded direct to the Royal 

 Herbarium of Kew; and, being thus disposed of, shall be no 

 longer the property of the Club in any sense, although the 

 collections shall be open to the inspection of any member giving 

 sufficient notice, and complying with such regulations as may 

 govern like portions of the National Herbaria.* 



VII The management of the affairs of the Club shall 

 devolve, in their several capacities, upon the following officers : 

 Editor of Records, Secretary and Treasurer, and such Botanical 

 Referees as may be appointed from time to time by the Editor to 

 assist in the determination of species. 



On all matters in dispute, concerning the polity or well-being 

 of the Club, these Officers and Referees shall form an Executive 

 Committee, to whose counsels shall be left such elections of 



* Note.— Director Sir J. D. Hooker has given his consent to this annual 

 acceptance of the Club's plants by the Kew authorities ; and it is a suggestion 

 erf Mr. Baker's that they should ultimately be incorporated with the Watsonian 

 Herbarium when that is received, supplementing it as they do. 



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