ANNOUNCEMENT 
OF THE 
BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
For 1888. 
When the GazeTTe 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 
raheem = oe = there was some ——— on the part of its editors and 
h the increased cost, and a cur- 
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tailment in some direction oud be Sees 
THE BEST GUARANTEE OF STABILITY 
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, is a reference to the well maintained 
iavitily issues from January, 1886, i the present time. be boc for 1886 contained 
256 pages, 12 plates, ie of which w ndi t ashe ang vag 
ceding numbers of t tained 284 , 15 plates, oub 
— _ 15 euts in the text. ‘Taking these sentation in ae with ie quality 
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rogress, not retro- 
gression, ‘“ to be as eank a feature of the second decade of the on as it was of the 
first. The journal isin some sense @ 
MIRROR OF AMERICAN BOTANY, 
and for this is — to the hearty codperation of the botanists of the country, nearly 
every one of wh tributor to its pages. 
ical science in America is making a rapid and healthy growth, and it seems 
enough to promise that the Gazerre will present its readers during 1888 with much of the 
best fruit of this activity. But it is ready to promise something more. Arrangements 
have been made to give a di eta i ene CN See 
‘ARTICLES ON EUROPEAN LABORATORIES 
and of other objects and matters of botanical interest in the Old World, prepared for the 
= ie by Aopen antares elas are now w atudying or traveling abroad, These will 
As the seen disemer a is increased the publishers are able to add to the attractive 
OFFER TO OLD SURSOREBES 
ismade: Any one upon oo his oP eateeacsary ae aig: — name of a new sub- 
seriber, with $4.00, will haye his own 
Address 
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS - 
JOHN M. COULTER, Crawfordsville, Ind. 
CHARLES R. BARNES, Madison, Wis. 
J. C. ARTHUR, La Fayette, Ind. 
