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frequent enough in most places ! I would venture to ask 
more members to kindly send a copy of their labels (written 
with the data in the approximate order long since adopted in the 
Reports) on a 4to sheet or piece of foolscap, with a line left 
between each entry, preferably to sending a duplicate label. 
My thanks are due to Dr. Drabble and Mr. Pugsley, for 
reading the proofs, and for their examination of so many plants. 
We much regret that Mr. Barton felt obliged to resign his 
membership, and would thank him for all his past help. 
As Secretary I have received several enquiries from Cali- 
fornia and elsewhere in regard to exchange of specimens ; 
but it is thought inadvisable to extend our activities beyond 
Europe. Some of Dr. Koch’s beautifully prepared Swiss 
specimens, including several of great interest or rarity, have 
been much appreciated, even by some members who normally 
do not collect Continental plants. ^ g THOMPSON 
May 18, 1932. Hon. Sec. and Ed. 
Albert John Crosfield (1852-1931). 
We regret to record the death on August 6, 1931, of Mr. 
A. J. Crosfield, at his residence on the Madingley Road, 
Cambridge. Since 1890 he was a frequent contributor to the 
Club of small parcels of plants, right up to 1930. 
Ho was born at Liverpool in 1852, and his mother was 
Elizabeth, daughter of the first James Backhouse, the Quaker 
Missionary and traveller in Norway and the Antipodes, and 
founder of the famous York nurseries. In 1880 Crosfield 
married Miss Gulielma Wallis of Reading, and the late Anthony 
Wallis was one of their nephews. ( Journ . Bot. 1919, 347). 
In a long appreciation (with excellent portrait) in The 
Friend, Aug. 21, 1931, we read that even before Crosfield went 
to Bootham School, York, he was an enthusiastic naturalist, 
and that birds and flowers were his chief interest. During the 
last few years he had contributed several readable articles 
to that weekly journal on the plants observed during some 
of his later visits to N. Wales and Worcestershire. 
Early in life A. J. Crosfield threw himself into active 
religious, Temperance and Adult School work ; and for fifty 
years was closely associated with the Friends’ Foreign Mission 
Association, of which Board he was chairman from 1911 to 
1920 ; and he twice went to India. He also visited China 
