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EDITORIAL. 
_ OUR READERS will see by reference to a preceding page that one of 
the recommendations of the Committee on Bibliography which was 
“approved by the Madison Botanical Congress is to be carried into ef- 
fect atonce. This is the publication ofan author-catalogue of botan- 
ical papers relating to American botany. Ithas been of great advantage 
-tobotanists to have for reference the useful index to literature relating 
_to American botany, which has been for several years a feature of the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. (We might take this opportu- 
nity, by the way, to express our pleasure that the doubts we possessed 
as to the permanence of this department at its inception have proved 
to be entirely unfounded.) This index is now to be made as com- 
plete as the co-operation of a number of specialists can make make it. 
. What is of equal, if not of greater, importance is that the type already 
_} “tup for this monthly index is to be used in printing the entries on 
: Index cards, and these cards are put on the market therefore at a cost 
; far below what it would be if the matter had to be collated and 
_ Painted separately. 
“i THE PRODUCTION of this highly desir 
€co-operated. In the first place, the editor 
members of the Torrey Botanical Club who support the Bulletin ought 
toreceive the thanks of botanists. In the second place, even this first 
_ =p would probably not have been taken had it not been for the 
Botanical Congress which briefly discussed the matter of bibliography 
= summer. For this Congress gave opportunity for the expression 
_ approval which encouraged the editor of the Bulletin to preserve @ 
department which he was tempted to abandon on account of the 1m- 
“ing amount of work it entailed and the desirable space it occupied. 
: gt gave occasion for the appointment of a committee on bibliog- 
7 “wel in conference with whom Dr. Britton agreed to the typoETae 
ZA, © Fag which have made the issuance of these cards possible. 
© ta finally, it is through the efforts of a member of this committee 
7 t the distribution and sale of the cards has been arranged with the 
~ Botanical Supply Co. 
1 is € GazeTre desires in every way to promo hare 
> |‘ venture which is the ‘earnest, we trust, of yet more abun an 
a €sts to be reaped through the cordial co-operation of generous 
i Suled workers, 
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able result several factors 
who directs, and the 
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er ae 
te the success of this 
7 lg WRITER in Zoe, “K. B.,” who writes sneering! 
i ne of the past summer appears sadly out of h 
7 of the times among the botanists. Her envenomed 
y of the botanical 
armony with the 
pen stabs 
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