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_ It is owr intention to issue the first number of volume 4 be- 
the end of January if at all possible. | "There are many things — 
ust be done, but we shall find time to issue this journal as 
arly as possible—but we must have articles to print. Do 
- Several kind and thoughtful souls have already sent in their 
dollar for the 1908 volume, and we tender our best thanks. To 
those who have not yet sent in their subscription, the editor 
would say that there is no time like the present for doing a good 
deed. Do not wait for the formality of a presented bill. . There 
is immediate use for several times the amount of the sum total 
of the subscriptions. And please do not subscribe through an 
agency or a dealer. A scientific magazine with a small sub- 
scription list cannot afford to pay a comission to an agent, and 
the small sum one mzs¢ give him is not enough to allow him to 
make any reduction to the subscriber. 
The transcripts of original descriptions which are printed 
in nearly every number should be of great assistance to many 
botanists, but in order to make the feature more useful we in- 
teiid to print a separate index of the names of the species trans- 
scribed, as well as of all new species described in this magazine. 
In order to avoid confusion this index will be placed at the 
front of the volume. Since volume 2 is not yet completed, only 
volumes 1 and 2 will be represented in the present index, the 
figure 1 or 2 placed back of the page number indicating the vol- 
ume in which the description may be found. 
The year 1908 is with us, and the editor has been asked 
what he intends to do personally about Latin descriptions, and 
whether he will print English ones for other people. His an- 
swer has been and always will be that he most emphatically is 
going to continue to write descriptions in English, and earnestly 
