100 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



lection of additional specimens. The end and aim o{ 

 botany is not found in the amassing of specimens nor in 

 the completion of any botanical S3^stem, but lies rather in 

 the enriching of life by supplying the knowledge for a 

 thoughtful, contemplative enjo3^ment of the beauty of the 

 plant kingdom. 



* 

 The title page and table of contents to the first volume 

 of this journal has been published and will be sent free to 

 any possessor of the first volume upon application. The 

 other title-pages will appear as fast as we can get them 

 printed. 



BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



The Atlantic Slope Naturalist published at Narberth, 

 Pa., is apparently dead. Recent letters asking for sample 

 copies, etc., having received no response. 



After an existence in various forms for nearly half a 

 century, American Gardening- has suspended publication. 

 In a nation as big as our own it would seem as if all the 

 gardening magazines now published should be able to find 

 a sufficient following to support them. 



A new quarterly magazine devoted to Natural His- 

 tory, called The A pteryx is to btgin publication injanuary. 

 It is to be edited by C. Abbott Davis, of the Roger 

 Williams Park Museum, Providence, R. I., and although 

 its name indicates that it will be unable to fly, we trust 

 that it will be able to maintain its place in the race for 

 subscribers. 



The editor of The Plant World is apparently out of 

 patience with both the magazine and its readers. In the 

 October number he assertsthat technical articles would be 

 "absolutely unintelligible to the majority of our readers" 

 and follows up this remarkable statement by printing a 

 testimonial from a subscriber in which he says "I think 

 The Plant World is about the thinnest excuse for a masra- 

 zine of any of them published." 



