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In last year’s report I drew attention to the need of better made 
packets, and there has been a decided improvement this year, though 
there is room for more. This year I desire to draw attention to a 
want in the specimens themselves. A packet should contain sufficient 
material to show the habit of the plant as it grows, i.e., the tuft or 
patch, not merely individual stems, for when we talk of the 
“ plant ” in Mosses there is this ambiguity ; as a rule we refer to 
the “ colony ” or group of separate stems, but sometimes to indi¬ 
vidual stems. A proper moss-packet then, should exhibit the mode 
of growth, and not merely a few stems unravelled, or a tuft 
mercilessly divided up. Most of those contributed were of a 
proper size, but some were far too small. While crediting mem 
bers in the list this year with the full number of packets sent by 
each (last year in some cases when they were small 1 divided it by 
two) I have taken size into account in deciding the value of their 
contributions, and have sent two or three of these small packets out 
to make up one specimen. The only case where it is justifiable 
to send scraps is in the case of some very rare or unique specimen 
where material is precious. 
It should also be understood that the plants sent are intended 
for the herbarium, and should be properly prepared, when necessary 
washed, cleaned, pressed, or otherwise prepared, suitably to the 
species. While the preparation varies according to the mode of 
growth, all require a certain amount of preparation to make them 
fit for the herbarium, and not occupy too much room Some sent 
in this year were evidently in a state of nature as they had been 
gathered. 
I have now done with fault-finding. On the whole the 
specimens sent in were good, and many rare and valuable plants 
have been exchanged, besides a very large number of common 
and fairly common ones. 
As the number of common species sent far outnumbered the 
rarities, those members have naturally fared best whose wants have 
been most numerous. While there were specimens available I 
have sent, even though the member could not claim so many in 
exchange for what he sent. Those members, on the other hand, 
who have fairly complete herbaria, and ask for only a few of the 
rarest species and varieties have not obtained many, but the value 
of what has been sent to them is greater, as the last remaining 
blanks are always hardest to fill. 
A generous policy is, I think, the best for our Club, as we desire 
to help forward the study of Bryology, and be something more 
than a mere exchange club, conducted on hard and fast principles 
of justice. 
Hepaticae. — Only a few, 104, were contributed. 
A new list, revised up to date, containing all the species added 
to the British List since 1881, the date of the last London Cata¬ 
logue, is now being printed, entitled : “The Moss Exchange Club 
Catalogue of British Hepaticae.” It will be of course the pro- 
