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EDITORIAL. 



With the approach of autumn the editors of The Plant World, 

 in provident forethought for Volume 4, have been actively engaged in 

 making plans for new features and improvements in the journal. The 

 promise which we long ago held out of an increase in the size of the 

 monthly issue, will be redeemed at the first moment that our subscrip- 

 tion list warrants it. The supplement, which has proved a popular 

 feature with this volume, will be continued, carrying the series of 

 articles well into the Dicotyledons; it is needless to add that the series 

 will be profusely illustrated, as heretofore. We shall also begin the 

 publication, at an early date of popular illustrated articles descriptive, 

 of the plant life of a certain region; among those already arranged for 

 are the following: "Botanizing in Cuba" by William Palmer. "Plant 

 Life in Porto Rico" by A. A. Heller, and "Through Alabama in a 

 Camp Wagon" by Charles L. Pollard. 



We hope our readers will bear The Plant ^^'()RLD in mind at the 

 opening of the century and say a kindly word for the journal when 

 opportunity offers. 



At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science in New York last June it was decided ])y the 

 council that as a further inducement to membership the weekly journal 

 "Science" should be sent free to each active member after January 1, 

 1901. This wise action will very effectually dispel the complaint that 

 has been heard from various quarters to the effect that membership in 

 the association was more of a name than a reality. "Science" is a 

 most valuable publication, and one which no student of science can 

 afford to be without. As for the Association itself, we have more than 

 once made reference in these columns to the purely social as well as 

 the scientific advantages of membership in this organization. 



