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After the matter for this issue was read^' for the 

 printer, we had the misfortune to lose a large part of it 

 in the mails. As yet we have been unable to get any 

 trace of it but are making every effort in that direction. 

 In the meantime we have added new matter and trust 

 our readers will overlook this additional delay. 



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Possibh^ some of our readers are not aware that the 

 editor, in addition to looking after this journal and The 

 Fern Bulletin, is a teacher of biolog\' in a city high school 

 and has just completed a book on the fern allies. It has 

 sometimes happened, in consequence of these various 

 calls upon his time, that answers to inquiries have not 

 been made by return mail, but the delays in issuing the 

 magazine have not been due to the same cause. It may 

 also interest our readers to know that these causes of 

 delay have now been removed and that this magazine 

 will be issued on time by July 1st, and ever afterward. 

 We have two numbers of the magazine made up and 

 waiting for the printer, and others will follow at short 

 intervals until we overtake out dates. It would be easier 

 for us to issue one or two double numbers, but we have 

 never attempted to double up in this way and readers 

 may be assured of getting twelve numbers for 1905 



as usual, 



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To make up these additional numbers we shall need 

 an extra number of articles and we trust that if any of 

 our friends have thought of sending us an article, they 

 will do it at once. A good time to send in your notes is 

 when sending your subscription. 



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This magazine in 1905 will continue along the lines it 

 has always followed. If the botanist or botanizer will 

 stop to think, he will notice that the making of new spe- 



