WATSON BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 
The response to the circular of October 23 was very 
gratifying, in that it displayed on the part of the most 
active workers a keen desire that the Club should not 
be allowed to lapse, the resignations consisting almost 
entirely of members who no longer contribute plants. 
It has therefore been decided that the Club shall be 
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continued, and members are asked to send their parcels 
of plants by December 31 to W. H. Pearsall, Esq., 
Dalton-in-Furness, Lancs., who has very kindly promised 
to distribute. The work of distribution, and the com- 
pilation of the Report, will be greatly facilitated if 
members will be careful to keep to the few simple rules 
given in the Desiderata List, and will remember to send 
with each gathering of plants a spare copy of the label. 
If the Club is to continue its work satisfactorily it 
is very essential that there should be a considerable 
increase in the number of members, and we cannot too 
strongly urge all either to endeavour themselves to 
enlist recruits, or to send to the Secretary the names 
and addresses of those they suggest should be invited 
to join. Additional members who are likely to con- 
tribute specimens are particularly wanted, but non- 
contributing members are also heartily welcomed for 
the assistance they give to the funds by their sub- 
scriptions. 
After thirteen years’ good service to the Club as 
Treasurer, for which we are most grateful, Mr. S. H. 
Bickham now wishes to retire, and the present Secretary" 
will, for the time being, take his place. If members 
