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page. It may be said in passing that the rate of The Atnerican 

 Botanist is the lowest of any, being about half a cent a page. 

 It is to be regretted that the constantly advancing prices of 

 such publications as llic Botanical Gazette and the Torrey 

 Bulletin are drawing tliem away from the common people who 

 cannot, or who will not, pay such prices, thus leaving a gulf 

 between the general public and the scientist which should not 

 be. It will be a bad day for botany when the leaders get 

 perched so high upon their pedestals that the rest of us cannot 

 find out what they are doing, 



BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



The American Inventor which many will remember will 

 regret as the successor to Popular Science has recently ceased 

 publication. 



It does not take long to get a reputation for age among 

 botanical publications. One change after another serves to 

 put the well-known names of such publications into the limbo 

 of forgotten things. A few years ago. Medians' Monthly 

 was among the first of botanical magazines. At the death of 

 its editor it was merged with Floral Life. A little later and the 

 well-known Maytloiver met the same fate. Now Floral Life 

 has lost its life and has been merged with The Household 

 Journal, a 14 page publication which began existence this year. 

 Surveying this great mortalit\- the American Botanist begins 

 to feel quite aged. 



With the September number. Forestry and Irrigation 

 published at Washington. D. C, changes its title to Consoua- 

 tion. The journal, now in its 14th volume began life as a thin 

 monthly called The Forester. Later it joined forces with Irri- 

 L-ation with the title it has used up to the ])resent. It is now a 



