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PROPOSAL FOR A BOTANICAL SURVEY 
XVI. 
PROPOSAL FOR A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE 
BROADS DISTRICT. 
A suggestion made in my paper on the “ Bionomical Botany 
of Sutton and the Ant District”* for a detailed Botanical 
Survey of that District, has been followed up by a proposal 
for a Botanical Survey of the Broads District, and later on, if 
practicable, of the whole county of Norfolk. The proposal 
was brought before a meeting of the Society on 28th January, 
1908. The co-operation of members of the Society interested 
in Botany was invited, Mr. Robert Gurney offering to supply 
a copy of the 6 in. O.S. sheet gratis to any capable person 
who would lend a hand in the work. Work of this nature has 
already been accomplished in Scotland, Yorkshire and 
Somerset, and the results of the two latter surveys published 
in the Royal Geographical Journal. References to some of 
the literature of Botanical Surveys are given below. 
In order to ensure uniformity in the results, the following 
scheme for mapping the vegetation on a 6 in. O.S. sheet, has 
been drawn out. Different colours with set-in letters are 
here suggested, but need not be rigidly adhered to, provided 
that the worker makes it quite clear what his various symbols 
or colours refer to. The results obtained on the 6 in. maps 
* Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. viii. p. 288. 
