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THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB 
OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
REPORT OF THE DISTRIBUTOR FOR 1S93. 
The number of specimens contributed is slightly in excess of the 
average of the past few years. It is gratifying to notice on the whole 
an improvement in the specimens, both as regards selection and 
drying and the quantity sent with each label, but there are still a few 
members whose parcels leave much to be desired. Mr. Rogers’s 
remarks as to the size and substance of the papers sent between 
specimens, under the genus Rubus (p. 404) would apply equally to 
other plants. In these days when waste paper is so plentiful it is 
surely not much to ask that members should send their specimens 
between papers large enough and stout enough to protect them from 
injury, instead of the small and flimsy pieces frequently received. 
The usefulness of the Club would be greatly enhanced if members 
would, in the case of critical species, send a fair number of specimens, 
say twenty or thirty of each. Of the plants contributed last year 
nearly one-half were represented by less than ten specimens. 
The best thanks of the Club are due to the following gentlemen, 
who have acted as referees for the critical genera ; to the Rev. W. 
Moyle Rogers, who very kindly undertook the determination of the 
Rubi and the editing of the notes thereon; to Mr. F. J. Hanbury, who 
went through the whole of the specimens of Hieracia ; to Professors 
Crepin, Hackel, and Haussknecht, who reported on the Roses, Grasses, 
and Epilobia respectively ; to Mr. Arthur Bennett, who examined the 
Potamogetones , most of the Carices , and a number of other plants ; to 
Dr. Buchanan White, who examined the Willows ; and to Messrs. 
Bailey, E. G. Baker, Beeby, Nicholson, and Townsend for their kind 
assistance and notes on various critical plants. 
The following is a list of the parcels received : — 
No. of 
Specimens. 
Mr. J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S 44 
Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S 125 
Mr. W. H. Beeby, F.L.S 26 
Mr. Henry Bromwich 129 
Capt. A. H. Wolley Dod, R.A 393 
Mr. G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 116 
Rev. H. E. Fox, M.A 142 
Mr. Alfred Fryer 38 
Mr. H. D. Geldart 28 
Mr. J. E. Griffith, F.L.S., F.R.A.S.. 384 
Mr. James Groves, F.L.S 255 
Mr. F. J. Hanbury, F.L.S 130 
Mr. H. C. Levinge, M.A., J.P., D.L. 176 
Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A 422 
Rev. E. F. Linton, M.A 185 
Rev. W. R. Linton, M.A 382 
Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A . , F.L.S. .. 272 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A . , F.L.S... 41 
Mr. F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S 
Rev. R. P. Murray, M.A 
Rev. W. Hunt Painter 
Miss C. E. Palmer 
Rev. W. H. Purchas 
Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, M.A., F.L.S 
Mr. R. W. Scully, F'.L.S 
Mr. W. A. Shoolbred 
Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
Capt. J. H. A. Steuart 
Mr. S. A. Stewart 
Miss R. F. Thompson 
Mr. LA. Wheldon 
Mr. J. W. White, F.L.S. 
No. of 
Specimens. 
t6 
1S8 
40 
146 
IS 
80 
40 
147 
28 
54 
40 
35 
41 
80 
Total 
4.238 
October , iSgp 
James Groves. 
