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The present number of this magazine completes its four- 

 teenth volume, a volume which, we are glad to say, has gone 

 to more subscribers than any before it. For the fifteenth vol- 

 ume we bespeak not only the patronage of our present sub- 

 scribers, but their good will as well which we hope they will 

 manifest by mentioning the magazine to their friends and ac- 

 quaintances. The new volume will be a good deal like the old 

 one. We shall try to select such matter as will please anyone 

 with a sane interest in plants. Dr. Gleason will continue his 

 department of Field Botany and we expect to add a series of 

 articles on the teaching of botany, but shall not dignify this by 

 giving it a separate department. All in all, we feel confident 

 that we shall put out a volume worth 75 cents to any botanist 

 and we trust our subscribers will agree with us. In this issue 

 we also send bills for the new volume and for any arrears that 

 may be due us. Those who do not find a bill facing the frontis- 

 piece may know that their subscriptions are paid up beyond the 



first of the year. 



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During the past year this office received numerous com- 

 plaints of loss of money sent us in the mails. Usually the miss- 

 ing money was in the shape of bills and coin, but not a few 

 money orders and checks also failed to arrive. It now trans- 

 pires that our mail was being systematically robbed by the 

 carrier on our city route. This gentleman is now "doing time" 

 for his misdeeds but this will not bring back the lost coin. The 

 cheapest and safest way of sending money through the mails 

 is by bank draft. Anyone having an account at a bank can 

 usually get drafts on New York or Chicago free. Express 

 money orders and postal money orders are also safe but bills 



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