ANNOUNCEMENT 
Ff BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
For 1888. 
When the Gazerre entered upon its new career in 1886, greatly increased in size and 
with improved typographical and illustrative features, all in much larger ratio than the 
advance in subscription price, there was some apprehension on the part of its editors and 
friends that the financial support would not keep pace with the increased cost, and a cur- 
tailment in some direction would be necessary. 
THE BEST GUARANTEE OF STABILITY 
the publishers can offer, or need to offer, is a reference to the well maintained monthly 
_ issues from January, 1886, to the present time The volume for 1886 contained 356 pages, 
12 plates, two of which were double size, and 13 cuts in the text; the ten preceding num- 
bers of the present year have contained 260 pages, 14 plates, one being double size, and 12 
euts in the text. Taking these statistics in connection with the quality of the subject 
matter, and no further argument is needed to show that progress, not retrogression, is to 
be as much a feature of the second decade of the journal as it was of the first The jour- 
nal isin some sen ea 
MIRROR OF AMERICAN BOTANY, 
4 for this is indebted to the hearty codperation of the botanists of the country, nearly 
fruit of this activity. But it is ready to promise something more. gene eo 
ve been made to give a diversified series of illustrated 
ARTICLES ON EUROPEAN LABORATORIES 
lof other objects and matters of botanical interest in the Old World, prepared for the 
ost part by American botanists who are now studying or traveling abroad. These will 
ts mbtless prove both interesting and instructive. 
_As the subscription list is increased the publishers are able to add to the attractive- 
#nd value of the journal, and to this end the following 
OFFER TO OLD SUBSCRIBERS 
Made: new suds 
Any one upon ee his Rmapede neo 959 —— ane name of a 
With $4.00, will have his owr 
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS: =~ 
om COULTER, Crawfordsville, Ind. 
CHARLES R. BARNES, Madison, Wis. 
J. C. ARTHUR, La Fayette, Ind. 
