THE PHYTOLOGIST. 

 1860. 



Address to the Contributors , etc. 



The Editor has again to perform the agreeable duty of thanking 

 the numerous correspondents of the ' Phytologist' for their Hberal 

 contributions, and also for their personal efforts to extend the 

 circulation of the magazine. The list printed with this number, 

 and intended to be bound up with the numbers issued during 

 the past year, will show that our supporters are staunch and 

 steady in their support of the Journal of Botany. 



Our motto is, and has been, " a fair field and no favour.^' 

 There is not the slightest ground for surmising that there is 

 even a trace of partiality in the management. Every botanist, 

 whatever be his social position or scientific repute, is entitled to 

 record his observations in the ' Phytologist.' Editorial opinions 

 are never obtruded ; nor are any communications unnoticed, — it 

 may be said, unprinted, — however unpleasing they may be to the 

 Editor's feelings, or opposed to the results of his observations 

 and experience. 



Very cautious persons may mistake what is vulgarly termed 

 " mares' nests," and more modishly " canards," for grave facts. 

 But there is generally some sharp-sighted and humane cor- 

 respondent on the watch to give due notice, to warn us of 

 danger, and to prevent our walking into the trap with our eyes 

 open. 



One of the objects of confining each series of numbers within 

 the limit of twelve months was that any fact recorded during the 

 brief space of a year might be more easily referred to at a future 

 period. It was urged, with truth, that it would be easier to hunt 



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