THE WATSON 
Botanical Exchange Club. 
REPORT FOR 1917—18. 
The contributions for the year give a total of 2827 sheets, 
and this satisfactory number has been much helped by the ener- 
getic work of Mr. W. C. Barton. The increase is some 500 
plants over last year, and the revival shows that the Club is 
appreciated, and that members are prepared to make efforts to 
maintain the study of our Flora whenever opportunity can be 
found, in spite of the other claims on their time and the difficul- 
ties of collecting beyond their own locality. 
The Batrachian Ranunculi and Rubi were well represented, 
and another great object of the Club, to obtain information 
about unusual gatherings of ordinary species, was usefully carried 
out. 
Miss D. M. Higgins sent single sheets of a good number of 
Rubi taken from the surplus of her herbarium, and these filled 
gaps in the desiderata lists. 
The preparation of the plants was not so carefully attended 
to by some members as could be desired, and spare labels were 
often overlooked. 
The contributors for the year were : — 
Sheets. 
Mr. C. Bailey ... ... 41 
Mr. W. Barclay... 
17 
Mr. W. C. Barton 
870 
Mr. S. H. Bickham 
124 
Rev. Preb. R. J. Burdon 
257 
Mr. A. J. Crosfield 
25 
Rev. Preb. H. E. Fox ... 
66 
Mr. J. E. Griffith 
174 
Miss D. M. Higgins 
70 
Mr. J. E. Little 
74 
Dr. F. Long 
28 
Sheets. 
Rev. E. S. Marshall ... 180 
Rev. W. Moyle Rogers... 79 
Miss I. M. Roper ... 235 
Mr. C. E. Salmon ... 18 
Mr. W. R. Sherrin ... 26 
Mr. H. S. Thompson ... 224 
Rev. C. H. Waddell ... 85 
Mr. J. W. White ... 234 
Total 
...2827 
