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Botany throughout the country into communication with each 

 other. Our receipts do not yet quite cover our expenses. It is 

 our ambition to enlarge, our httle publication and make it perman- 

 ent. To do this there is need of funds. * * An endowment of 

 about $3, ooo would enable us, with our present list of subscribers, 

 to double the number of pa^es, and perhaps, add some much 



needed illustrations. 



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of the same year, at the time of the final organization of the Club, 

 and again in December. The fourth volume reached about the 

 same size as its predecessors, and the first five volumes were com- 



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pleted in December, 1874. 



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Carex. The difficulty of obtaining correct and reliable reports 

 on the Gramine3e caused its suspension, although the list of Car- 

 ices and a few grasses appear in the first number of Vol. vi., as a 

 supplement, issued, however, at a long subsequent date. But 

 more general matter was crowding in and there was no lack of it. 

 The next five years were allowed to run on as one vol- 

 ume (Vol vl.) reaching 379 pages, an average of about 76 pages 

 annually. The publication fund hoped for by its founder was 

 not secured and it is needless to remark that it never has been. 



But the object soui^ht by Mr. Leggett had in a large degree 

 been attained. He had ''fanned into a flame the sparks of bot- 

 anical enthusiasm" and excited such a widespread and increasing 

 interest in his loved science that in the increase of subscriptions 

 the BULT.ETIN could be materially enlarged. Vol. vii. reached 

 128 pages ; Vol. viii., 144 pages. In January, 18S2, at the begin- 

 ning of VoL ix., the journal was first foniially adopted as the 

 organ of the Club, and at the same time the Editor's labors were 

 divided by the election of an associate, Mr. W. R. Gerard, and 

 to him fell the duty of completing that volume alone, for the 

 morning of April i ith witnessed the death of the genial, talented 

 and earnest editor. 



Mr. Leggett's services to American Botany have never yet 

 been suitably recognized. It is believed by those who have re- 

 cently conducted the Bulletin — and we know that this belief is 

 shared by many others — that this journal was the prime mover in 

 exciting and developing the deep botanical interest which is so 



