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Readers of this magazine will recall that upon several oc- 

 casions the editor has tried to secure an associate editor in 

 order to reduce the amount of routine work devolving upon 

 him. When this magazine was started the editor had more 

 leisure than at present to devote to it, but each year has seen 

 an increased demand upon his time until it now becomes neces- 

 sary to retrench somewhere in order to allow him time to eat 

 and sleep. He has found by somewhat extended experiment 

 that teaching botany all winter lecturing all summer, editing 

 this magazine and the Fern Bulletin and writing an occasional 

 book in between does not give that leisure which should go 

 Avith the simple life. 



The burdensome part of editing and managing a publica- 

 tion lies in the necessity for constant attention to advertiser, 

 contributor, illustrator, cut-maker, compositor, proof-reader, 

 pressman and paper-maker in order that all may work to- 

 gether to get each issue out on the proper date. It will be 

 seen that reducing the number of issues greatly reduces the 

 amount of routine work, and therefore, though we regret the 

 necessity for the step, this magazine will be issued hereafter 

 as a quarterly, with a corresponding reduction in price. We 

 have no doubt that there will be considerable regret at the 

 change — in fact several of our friends have written to say 

 that they would be willing to pay more and have the magazine 

 as it is — but we repeat that while the editor was never known 

 to side-step a dollar coming his way, it is time, rather than 

 money that he is after now. Lack of time alone, has caused 



the delay in the present issue. 



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The reduction in the number of issues of this magazine 

 <loes not mean a corresponding reduction in the amount of 



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