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Annual Address from the Publisher and Editor of the 

 Phytologist. 



We think it both becoming and respectful to our numerous 

 friendly and influential supporters, to inform them that we are 

 duly sensible of their kind efforts in behalf of the above-named 

 publication. The contributors are specially deserving of this 

 public acknowledgment, for they support us by their communi- 

 cations and their subscriptions both. The subscription list con- 

 tinues increasing ; and this and other unmistakable signs assure 

 us that our circle is enlarging. To readers therefore, to subscri- 

 bers, and above all to contributors, our thanks are hereby duly 

 tendered. 



In reference to the mechanical and editorial features of the 

 magazine, there appear to be no complaints ; none at least have 

 come to our knowledge. Certain suggestions have been made 

 by friends, who not only have told us what would render the 

 journal more useful, but have also supplied that which they 

 thought was lacking. We earnestly wish to give the ' Phyto- 

 logist ' a more comprehensive character. That it is conducted in 

 a catholic spirit no one has ever gainsaid ; but our wish is to 

 make it something more attractive than a mere record of the lo- 

 calities of plants. There is now in the Editor's portfolio a series 

 of very interesting articles on Morphology, and they will all be 

 published in due course, as we can get the illustrations ready ; 

 without these they would be unintelligible ; and we have reason 

 to look for more from the same source. There are besides in 

 our hands some interesting papers on Cryptogamic Botany. 

 These will be published from time to time, accompanied with ex- 

 planatory diagrams prepared by the authors. 



Still there is ample room for the exertions of a numerous class 

 of botanists, who will devote their energies rather to the discri- 

 mination of species, their range and statistics, than to the more 

 recondite branches of morphology, physiology, and embryogeny. 

 They will not, it is to be hoped, surmise that their labours are 

 not cordially welcome and duly estimated. A mistake here 

 would be fatal to the circulation and even existence of the ' Phy- 

 tologist,' which strives to obtain the sympathies of the many, as 

 well as the approbation of the select /ew. A fact was contributed 



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