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of 1910, it was taken over as the official organ of the American 
Fern Society in 1911.) The first volume consisted of the regular 
four numbers for 1911, plus two experimental issues published in 
1910. Your Resident Investigator takes pride in having been one 
of the founders of the magazine, as well as in having had a con- 
tinuous editorial connection throughout its more than 25 years of 
existence. Mr. C. A. Weatherby, Gray Herbarium, is, at present, 
chief of the editorial staff. which includes Mr. E. J. Winslow, 
Brattleboro, Vermont, and Dr. William R. Maxon, Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington, D. C. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry of the 
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University of Pennsylvania is President of the Society. 
The dmerican Fern Journal and the American Fern Society are 
in great debt to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for providing a 
headquarters for much of the business of the periodical. The 
back numbers are stored at the Botanic Garden, and requests for 
information, sample copies, and so on, are also received at the 
Garden, either through Dr. Svenson, of the Garden staff, who is 
Treasurer of the Society, or through the Resident Investigator. 
It has been and still is the policy of the Fern Society to maintain 
complete sets of the entire issue of the Journal. Vo do this, it 
has been necessary, in one case, to reprint one of the early issues. 
At present, several complete sets are available, but a number of 
the early issues have been so depleted that further reprinting will 
be necessary. 
The general policy of the Fern Journal is to provide a medium 
for the publication and dissemination of information regarding 
ferns, both popular and technical. Its membership, while chiefly 
American, has a world-wide distribution. 
FERN Work 
Work with the ferns during 1935 has had to do chiefly with the 
maintenance of collections on the best possible basis. A consider- 
able set-up of Nephrolepis forms was arranged and shown during 
the Garden’s 25th anniversary celebration. During the year, an 
interesting collection of aquatic fern types has been assembled in 
House No. 1. This includes representatives of the following 
families: Marsileaceae, Salviniaceac, and Ceratopteridaceac. Five 
genera are represented in this collection, as follows: A/arsilea, 
Pilularia, Salvinia, Azolla, and Ceratopteris. 
