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I. — That the formation of an association should be postponed until the law 
has been finally settled one way or the other, after its consideration by Lord 
Avebury for other framer of the Bill) and his advisers this summer, and until 
the botanists of the county have decided what plants in Gloucestershire should 
be protected, and in what places in particular. That the later formation of an 
association would then prove most beneficial in assisting to make the laws known, 
in conducting prosecutions, in paying watchers, in bringing influence to bear in 
order to have places enclosed, in advancing knowledge on the subject of protection 
in elementary schools, &c. 
II. — -That the Club is of opinion that the law requires amending with a view 
to the preservation of wild plants, and that the question of detail should be 
referred by the framers of the Bill to the leading Natural History Societies in 
Great Britain for their consideration before it is brought before Parliament, and 
that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. G. C. Druce to place before 
Lord Avebury or other movers in the matter of protection. 
III. — That the Club recommends that its Botanical Committee should obtain 
the advice of the expert county botanists as to what Gloucestershire plants require 
protection, and in what places, and what methods of remedy should be adopted 
in the different places. 
IV. — The Club recommends that when an association is formed the Club shall 
advise it as far as possible over the district worked by the Club, and that the 
Club should support it and should obtain support from it in acquiring or enclosing 
places to be preserved or in approaching landowners or others requesting them 
to abstain from ruining a locality. 
V. — That the Club is of opinion that the following courses are in threatened 
places open to botanists, and that it considers them perfectly legitimate from the 
point of view of science : — 
(1) To transplant plants from a threatened spot to another but safe spot in 
the same locality, if the geological and natural formations are the same — e.g., a 
field containing Fritillaria meleagris threatened to be ploughed up or built upon 
— remove the plants to a safe place close by ; the edge of a quarry, being worked, 
tumbling in and taking with it plants of Spiraa Filipendula, remove them further 
back. 
(2) To save or cultivate the seed of a very rare plant, and to sow it where 
such plant actually grows in order to keep up a stock, and even to cultivate and 
to plant seedlings in the same way instead of sowing seed, e.g., any plants like 
Geranium sanguineum, and Veronica spicata, constantly liable to be picked — 
save seed and sow it or cultivate seedlings, and plant them to keep up a good 
stock. 
VI. — That at every meeting of the Club, in order to keep the question of 
threatened plants (and any threatened objects may be included at the same time) 
before it, one of the agenda should take the form of a question, “ Has any member 
to report that any plants or objects of interest are in danger?” and of an appeal 
to members to keep watch. 
These resolutions were adopted by the Club and have been 
circulated by them with a request that any resolutions passed 
by any kindred Society with reference to the proposed legisla- 
tion may be sent to the Secretary of the Committee, W. L. 
Mellersh, Esq., The Gryphons, Cheltenham. 
A New Opening for Selbornian Work.— A Nature Study 
and Recreation Committee has just been formed in connection 
with the Children’s Country Holiday Fund, with the object, 
first, of interesting the children before they leave town in the 
animal and plant life of the country, and so making their fort- 
night’s stay there still more pleasureable ; and second, to pro- 
vide them with means of amusement while away. In connection 
with their first aim the Committee, of which Mrs. S. A. Barnett, 
