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"The fact that I am renewing my subscription for two 

 years more, shows what I think of the magazine" was the 

 message that accompanied a check for $1.60 recently, and 

 the number of other renewals received for two years instead 

 of one indicates that many others are of the same mind. Like 

 all other publishers, we make a special rate to subscription 

 agencies, and we have no objection to making the same rate 

 to subscribers when ordering for two years in advance. Send 

 us $1.60 for two years and save forty cents. 



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With the January number, Muhlenbergia, edited by A. 

 A. Heller, Los Gatos, California, becomes a monthly publi- 

 cation. It is now in its third volume; the numbers of the 

 first two volumes having been issued as occasion permitted. 

 The editor is a practical printer and knows how to avoid the 

 mortality that affects youthful publications. We have no 

 doubt that this is another magazine destined to grow up, and 

 we are certain that it deserves to do so. 



The article in our January number, entitled "Life 

 History or Natural History" should have been credited to 

 Prof. J. F. Thompson of Richmond, Ind. School Science 

 from which we extracted the article gave the credit to the 

 wrong person and we naturally made the same error. The 

 article in question is one that the author need not fear to 

 claim, and we hasten to make amends. 



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We commonly make a distinction between wild and 

 cultivated plants, but it may be seen upon reflection that every 

 species of plant is wild somewhere. The seedsmen in their 



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