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Beginning with our next volume we have decided to stop 

 subscriptions at the end of the time for which they are paid. 

 This is not done to avoid being defrauded by those who fail to 

 pay their subscriptions, for as a matter of fact, we have not lost 

 fifteen dollars in this way since we began publication. Most 

 of our subscribers renew their subscriptions very soon after 

 being notified and we think that the small number who fail to 

 do so should not keep us from joining the ever incresing num- 

 ber of publishers who have adopted a modern way of doing 

 business. At the same time the editor is well aware that it is 

 not always convenient to renew as soon as subscriptions expire 

 and personally holds in high regard those publications to which 

 he subscribes that are not insistent upon renewal until he finds 

 time for it. With these facts in mind we are quite willing to 

 extend the time for anyone who for any reason does not care 

 to renew promptly. All that is necessary is to drop us a line 

 instructing us to continue sending the magazine until ordered 

 to stop. Payment may then be made during the year when 

 most convenient. We have a considerable number of such 

 letters on file already and we hope nobody will go without the 

 magazine because they are unable to renew promptly. The 

 subscription price is so low that the cost of renewing is not 



worth consideration. 



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In his excellent book "The Teaching Botanist" Dr. Gan- 

 ong in referring to botanical publications says : "But as to a 

 journal for the teacher and general reader, we have as yet none 

 that even approaches a satisfactory character and the lack of it 

 is another illustration of the weakness of this science on the 

 literary side. Such a journal should be accurate in fact, liter- 



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