266 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
REPORT OF THE IHSTRIBUTOR FOR 1907. 
Apologies are due to members for a late appearance of the 
Report. 
A large number of plants was sent for distribution : their 
quality and interest was on the whole high. Members seemed 
to appreciate the return parcels greatly. 
The Distributor’s work is, at the best, exacting of much 
time and labour. It is made much heavier, however, when 
members send their plants arranged otherwise than in the order 
of tlie London Catalogue, or do not supply enough labels. One 
parcel arrived without a separate sheet for each specimen ; and 
the plants had to be disentangled from each other, and provided 
each with its own sheet. Notes on the plants were not always 
svritten on detached slips of paper, but sometimes on the enclosing 
cover. Specimens might often be better prepared : complaints 
have come from several quarters on this point. And generally, 
it would be a help to Distributors and Members if the rules of 
the Club were carefully observed. 
The Club’s thanks are due to many well-known botanists 
who have siqiplied notes : Messrs. E. G. Baker, H. W. Pugsley, 
E. F. Linton, E. Hackel, D. Fry, and many of our own members. 
In Mr. Druce’s absence from England, it remains for me 
to recall to members the great and irreparable loss which the 
Club has suffered by the death of the Rev. W. R. Linton, which 
took place on 4th Jan. of this year. We have had, however, the 
privilege of receiving the valuable series of plants which he col- 
lected in 1907, and annotated and prepared for distribution. 
We also have to record, with regret, another gap in our member- 
ship, caused by the death of Mr. Adair ; a small parcel of his 
plants is distributed, through the kindness of Mr. Bailey. 
H. J. Riddelsdell. 
12 May^ 1908. 
