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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 11.) 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 11.) 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. 
