PREFACE TO VOLUME III. 



OF THE 



REPORTS OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 

 AND SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



The increase in the size of the Reports makes it desirable to close 

 the Third Volume with the Distributor's Report for 1913. May I 

 thank the members for their cordial support and ask them to assist 

 in enlarging the membership roll, as by that and other means 

 sufficient income may be assured to enable the accomplishment of 

 producing a general Index to the three volumes, and also the 

 reprinting of some of the earlier Reports which are now out of print, 

 and at the same time to allow the publication of some illustrations 

 of new British plants, and additional material respecting them. 



G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Yardley Lodge, 



Oxford, 1914. 



