Editorship of the " British Fern Gazette,'' and that 

 an honorarium of ten guineas be voted to him for 

 his services in that connection for the past year. 



President: Mr, A. Cowan, Penicuik, 



Vice-Presidents : 



Dr. F, W. Stansfield, Reading, Mr. J. j. Smithies, Kendal. 



Mr, C. T. Druery, A.cton, London. Mr, W. H. Phillips, Belfast, 



Mr, W, B. Boyd, Melrose. 



Hon. Secretary; Mr, Chas, T, Druery, v.m.h., f.l.s. 



Treasurer: Mr, W, B. Cranfield, Enfield Chase. 



AuditOi : Mr, J, J, Smithies. 



( omtnittee : 

 Mr, T, Bolton, Warton. Mr. T. G. 11. Eley, Burgess Hill, 



Sussex. 



,, J. J. Smithies, Kendal, ,, W. Bell, Furness Abbey. 

 ,, R, Whiteside, Lancaster. ,, G. Whitwell, Kendal. 

 ,, W. E, Farrer, Lancaster, ,, W. Wilson, Kendal. 

 Together with the President and Vice-Presidents as members c\-c 



P. VULGARE VAR. CORNUBIENSE. 

 From the point of view of the biologist, any deviation 

 from the normal structural specific form of a plant, which 

 deviation is not due to accidental damage or defective 

 cultivation and, therefore, affects its offspring by inheri- 

 tance, is quite as interesting as those particularly marked 

 types which claim our attention as being more beautiful 

 and worthy of culture than the normal ones. In the one 

 case, as in the other, something has happened to upset that 

 regular succession of operations which characterises 

 adherence to specific types and has for result the continu- 

 ance of that type, generation after generation, without any 

 appreciable variation. To such fern lovers as form our 

 little Society, the wealth of varieties which we have cited 

 as the more beautiful has, in course of time, become so 

 great and the range of selection so extended that it has 



