NOTICE TO THE MEMBERS 
OF THE 
We greatly regret tlie delay tliat there has been this year 
in dispatching the return parcels to the Members of the 
Botanical Exchange Club, and in the appearance of the 
Annual Report for 1872. 
This delay has been caused by the ill health of the 
Curator, Dr. Boswell Syme, who has been for the greater part 
of this year unable to perform the duties of the office. As 
his health is now improved he hopes to get the parcels and 
report ready by the end of the year. 
Mr. J. F. Duthie has informed us that he intends coming 
to reside in Edinburgh, and that he consents to share the 
work of the Curatorship of the Botanical Exchange Club 
with Dr. Boswell Syme, who feels himself now unable to 
undertake the labour of making up the parcels, &c., without 
assistance. 
Mr. Duthie will probably not take up his residence in 
Edinburgh until the middle of next summer ; so under the 
circumstances we think it best to suspend the operations of 
the Botanical Exchange Club for one year ; and request the 
members to reserve their parcels until the end of 1874, using 
for that year the list of desiderata already issued ; and, of 
course, not to pay their subscriptions before that date. 
We look forward to the continued prosperity of the 
Botanical Exchange Club when the new arrangement comes 
into operation. 
J. Gr. BAKER, Secretary. 
J. BOSWELL SYME, Curator. 
Nov. 25th, 1873. 
