REPORT OE' TIIEi COUNCIL FOR 1951 
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Secretaries and Panels of Specialists for the Year Book, 1951. As from 
April 26th the functions of the two previous Committees were combined 
in a Committee appointed under the title given above. 
MEETINGS {formerly FIELT) WOBK) COMMITTEE. Secretary: 
Dr. J. G. Dony. 
Arrangements were made for botanical films to be shown and papeis 
read during the morning of April 14th, and for a further paper to 
follow the Annual General Meeting that afternoon. This innovation 
was greatly apju’eciated and was attended by 85 members and guests. 
On April 26th the Council appointed the Meetings Committee to take 
over the functions of the former Field Work Committee as it was felt 
that the old title was misleading in view of the extension of its 
activities to include indoor meetings. 
The published programme of field meetings was completed as 
arranged. Five meetings lasting more than two days, and two one-day 
meetings were attended as follows: — Ipswich (42), Monmouth (38), 
Hailing (24), Cliveden (38), Arbroath (18), Reading (23) and Barrow (34) 
— a total attendance of 216. The number of individual members who 
attended meetings during the year was 120, which is probably a record. 
The Exhibition Meeting was held at the Natural History Museum 
on October 20th and was attended by 209 members and guests. The 
exhibits were of exceptional interest and we are gratefid to the Trustees 
and staff of the Museum for the facilities they placed at our disposal. 
Arrangements were in hand for a Conference on The Changing Flora 
of Britain to be held in the Royal Horticultural Society’s New Hall, 
Westniin.ster, on April 4tli and 5th, 1952. and this would be followed by 
an appropriate field meeting on April 6th. 
EUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE. Secretary: Mr. H. K. Airy Shaw. 
Watsonia , Volume IT, Parts I and IT, were published in June and 
November respectively and the whole of the galley-proof of Part TIT 
had been received from the printers before the end of the year. The 
standard of our iournal was well maintained under the editorship of 
Dr. E. F. Warburg and it has been possible to include more illustrations. 
The Year Book, 1951, edited by Mr. W. R. Price, was published in 
August and included full accounts of the plants found on field meetings 
and of exhibits shown at the 1950 Exhibition Meeting. 
A report of the 1950 Conference, edited by Mr. J. E. Lousley, was 
published in May as a separate book under the title of The Stvdy of the 
Distribution of British Plants. Members were given an opportunity of 
purchasing this book at half-price and the response, and sales to the 
public, have been very satisfactory. Arrangements have been made for 
the papers read at our 1952 Conference to be published similarly. 
For the purpose of producing a. revised and shortened edition of 
British Plant List as quickly as possible, a sub-committee was set up in 
May. The members of this sub-committee are Mr. H. K. Airy Shaw, 
