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It was extremely good of Mr. Wallace, when otherwise 
much occupied, to put off some of his own botanical work 
last winter, in order to manage the distribution at somewhat 
short notice when Mr. Goode found he was prevented from 
undertaking it a third time. 
The sympathy of every member of the Club is extended to 
Mr. Goode in the sad loss of his wife on January 5th, after a 
very long illness. 
I must plead guilty to being the chief offender in the 
matter of short sets. Nevertheless, however disappointing or 
annoying it may be to a Distributor to deal with many such, 
even three or four examples of certain gatherings may be 
quite useful, particularly for placing in public or institution 
herbaria. 
Members will notice that specimens of two good plants 
new to the British Isles were sent to the Exchange, viz., 
Veronica praecox from Suffolk by Mr. Lousley, and Epilobiurn 
adenocaulon from Surrey by Mr. Ash. 
It is with deep regret that we record the death on August 3, 
1933, of Dr. Eric Drabble, who of recent years especially had 
done so much for the Club in examining critical plants and 
reporting upon them. In the spring of last year, though in a 
more serious state of health than his letters conveyed, he not 
only examined plants for us, but in May insisted on helping 
me in the reading of proofs, when sometimes he could hardly 
hold a pen. An excellent portrait and an obituary notice 
appear elsewhere in this Report. 
We also regretfully record the passing of Mr. C. C. Lacaita 
(1853-1933), a former member of the Club for some years, and 
occasionally the writer of short notes on plants submitted to 
him. He had a profound knowledge of European phanero- 
gams (particularly Boraginaceae), and was a man of wide 
culture and travel. See Journ. Bot. 1933, 259. 
To Mr. J. E. Little we can but repeat our feeling of sincere 
sympathy expressed last year in his long and continued 
illness. Whatever his physical strength may be, his letters, 
though fewer, indicate that he has lost none of that wide and 
deep interest in affairs, nor in botany and scholarship in 
particular. 
Mr. H. G. Griffin, Secretary of the C.P.R.E., 17 Great 
Marlborough Street, W.l, has asked me to mention the 
carefully compiled and typed Schedules of Wild Flowers, in 
