PREFACE TO VOLUME II. 
OF THE 
REPORTS OF THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB. 
On the completion of the second volume, I thought it would 
be interesting to our Members to have some details of the Club 
and its history. For help in obtaining these, I have warmly to 
thank our Corresponding Member, Mr. J. Gilbert Baker, who has 
supplied the data from 1838 to 1866. Our esteemed Member 
and former Secretary, Mr. Charles Bailey, kindly supplied the 
details from 1866 to 1900. I have endeavoured to add the dates 
of the actual publication of the “ Reports ” when possible. 
I must also thank our Members for their kind and loyal 
iUpport during the past years. 
With an enlarged membership roll we have been able to issue 
fuller Reports ; and it is hoped that in time we may adopt in some 
respects the original objects of the Botanical Society of London. 
G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 
Yardley Lodge, 
Oxford, 1911. 
