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officers in place of resignations, such adjustments, decisions, or 

 general appeals to the members, as it may be thought wise and 



necessary to make. 



VIII. The Botanists able and willing to act as Botanical 

 Referees must be members of this Club ; and shall be chosen, each 

 one upon the ground of his special study of, and acquaintance 

 with, some difficult class or genus, or critical group of British 

 Plants.* All contributed specimens in regard to which the Editor 

 of Records is unable to satisfy himself, or feels any doubt about, 

 shall be submitted to a Referee, who shall settle finally whether it 

 appear in the Report of that year, or whether the record be 

 deferred for fuller information or ampler material. 



IX. The duties of the Editor of Records shall include the 

 safe keeping, verification, and arrangement of the plants confided 

 yearly to his care for the time being, for the special purpose of 

 enabling him to compile the Report. Having, with the assistance 

 of the several Referees, duly scrutinised, verified, and decided 

 (under Rule II.) upon the eligibility or unfitness of each separate 

 record for a place in the Report, the Report shall then be 

 prepared in such form as seems to him best ; and, when finished, 

 the manuscript shall be forwarded to the Secretary for his order 

 as to its printing. When in type, every specimen voucher which 

 represents a record in the Report shall be forthwith sent to Kew 

 by the Editor. It shall not be necessary to mount or forward 

 to Kew those contributed specimens notices of which are not 

 eligible (under Rule II.) for the Report, or the records of which 

 are to be deferred for any reason, such plants being superfluities 



for the purposes of the Club. 



X. The duties of the Secretary and Treasurer shall be to 

 collect the subscriptions; to keep the funds of the Club, its 

 expenditure vouchers, and other accounts ; and to authorise all 



NoTE.-Referees will thus, whilst not without power of direction, &c, 

 in crises of the Club's history, hold the honourable position of Experts or 

 Consultants, and so contribute not a little to the trustworthiness of the general 



Record. 



