BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



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Vol. IV. JANUARY; 1879. No. 1. 



To Botanists. — We know that it is not customary to advertise a jour- 

 nal in the space generally devoted to contributors, but we wish this to be 

 not merely an advertisement, but a special address to all botajiists. The 

 Gazette has now entered upon the fourth year ot its existence and has 

 steadily grown in favor. It will appear this year in a somewhat different 

 torm, which we hope will meet the approval (>f all our friends. The type 

 is larger and the number of pages increased to twelve. It has been sug- 

 gested that we raise the subscription price, but we have concluded to keep 

 it at its present rate for another year, desiring to reach as many botanists 

 as possible. It is extreniels' difficult to keep in running order a journal de- 

 voted exclusively t(» one department of science and lor this reason we call 

 upon all botanists to lend us their aid both by subscription and the contri- 

 bution of articles. One dollar a year is not much lor any botanist to spend 

 upon a paper devoted to his own department, and if all the working bota- 

 nists of this country would unite, they could support a hrst-class journal. 

 It was with some visionary hopes that such a thing would tinally grow out 

 of it that the Gazette was undertaken, and those hopes have not yet been 

 abandoned. We have already received cordial support from a large class of 

 botanists and they have our hearty thanks, but we would ask one thing 

 more of them, and that is that thev try to induce their botanical acquain" 

 tances to subscribe and write for the Gazette. 



We have put on a cover for the double purpose of protecting the body 

 of the Gazette and giving us room for advertisements, and to this also we 

 would call the attention of botanists. If any ot you wish to exchange, 

 sell or procure plants, the simplest and cheapest way is to advertise. A few 

 lines of advertisement will thus accomplish what one or two hundred let- 

 ters can not. Books, microscopes, anything pertaining to the science 

 should be constantly presented to the eyes of working botanists. 



The material of the Gazette will be just what its subscribers make it. 

 If they promptly send us contributions, long or short, so that we can have 



