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for the Club, though they may do for fastening down in permanent 
collection, are those which open with four flaps to the front and 
are cut out at the corners. One cannot be responsible for the 
safety of mosses in these insecure covers. 
Again, some members use too much paper, others too little ; 
some do not turn down enough at the end, (a very common fault 
in packets, it should never be less than half-an-inch,) some too 
much. All packets should be made, folded, and labelled before 
the plant is placed inside. When the paper is folded round the 
moss, and the writing done then an untidy packet is the result, 
which will not keep folded or lie flat. 
The Catalogue numbers of the species should be written on 
each packet, and a list of the plants sent in should accompany 
each parcel, and if plants are sent to be named, a separate list of 
these. In the case of newly-described species, or where desirable, 
the synonym should be added. 
I trust I shall be pardoned for making these criticisms and 
suggestions. 
Proposals for next year ; — 
The membership now stands at 25, so that 20 packets may be 
sent in of any rare Club desiderata, 10 of one less rare, and so on. 
A few common, which are not club desiderata—say not more than 
6 of each—may be sent to supply the wants of some members. 
A few fruiting specimens of any of the rarely fruiting species may 
be sent. 
It is proposed to raise the annual subscription to five shillings, 
payable on or before 31st March in each year. This will, I hope, 
enable us to print and supply to each member, 1st, a new Catalogue 
of Mosses and Hepaticse ; 2nd, a List of the Club’s desiderata ; 
and 3rd, an Annual Report if funds permit. 
13th November, 1896. 
C. H. Waddell, 
Hon. Sec. and Distributor for 1896. 
Note. —Attention is drawn to Rule IV., “each of his desid¬ 
erata ” which it lays down are to be marked thus :- . This 
means, I take it, that every plant not in the member’s herbarium 
should be so marked, and if this is done it will assist the distributor. 
Plants particularly wanted may have a longer and thicker stroke. 
For clearness and neatness the Catalogue should be gone through 
with pencil and ruler thus:—(pencil marks can afterwards be 
erased). 
Seligeria 
- no Doniana 
111 pusilla 
" 112 acutifolia 
- b longiseta 
- 113 trifaria 
&c. 
