Conclusion

Before closing this, the first, report of the Botanical Office, I wish to thank those botanists in various parts of the world who have rendered, or kindly offered, assistance in our work. It is gratifying to feel that the interest in the flora of this comparatively new field is not a purely local one, and we welcome the interest shown by botanists in various parts of Canada, Europe, and America, who have expressed the desire to obtain British Columbia specimens by exchange of herbarium specimens or seeds.

Special thanks are due to Prof. J. W. H. Trail, of the University of Aberdeen, for placing at our disposal his knowledge of botanical survey methods; to Sir David Prain, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eng.), for assistance in special cases of nomenclature; to Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, of the Linnean Society of London, for information relating to early botanical explorers in North-west America; to Prof. E. L. Greene, Washington; Mr. A. A. Heller, California; Miss Alice Eastwood, California; Dr. A. J. Grout, New York; Mr. Jas. M. Macoun, Ottawa; and others, who have in various ways helped our work by supplying specimens for comparison or information regarding critical species.

Respectfully submitted.
JOHN DAVIDSON, Provincial Botanist