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Tlie address of Kva Km worthy Gray who is pubhshing the 

 I'lmvcr Journal is Mud and W'oohiian Avenues, San I )icgo. 



* * * Several issues have appeared and the pubhcation 

 shows inchcations of surviving. * * * "The Fern Lov- 

 ers' Companion" is probably the most successful fern book 

 ever written. * * * |^ \y^^ been taken over by Little 

 IJrown & Co. of Boston, at a price calculated to make the au- 

 thors of all other fern-books envious. * * * \\q again 

 congratulate the author. * * * 1'l^e Ohio Journal of 

 Science has changed from nine numbers a year to bi-monthly. 



* * * The January issue begins the twenty-third volume. 



* * * "The Field and Camp Notebook" is a fat little book 

 tlesigned to make out-door note-taking easy. * * ♦ 

 It is by Comstock and X'inal and published by 

 the Comstock Publishing Company, Utica, N. Y. * * * 

 There are many fine drawings of birds, flowers, mammals, 

 insects, etc., outlines for studying them, and star-maps for 

 the different months. * * * Most of tlie outlines are ex- 

 cellent but we were disappointed in the one for studying an 

 animal. * * * We tried it on the earthworm and it 

 would not work. * * * Wonder if they could have 

 meant this outline for the study of nianunals? 



Walter Stager's "Tall Bearded Iris" is probably the first 

 book devoted exclusively t<j the iris that has appeared in Amer- 

 ica. As its name indicates, it deals with only one branch of 

 the Iris Family — the group commonly known as German 

 Irises — but since this is the group from which most of the 

 garden irises are derived the book may be said to cover that 

 part of the subject of interest to iris growers. The author's 

 sub-title is "A Flower of Song" and this is justified by some 

 200 quotations referring to the iris, some of which run to 



