ee iy ee AMERICAN FerN JOURNAL 
interest to members of the American -Fern Society. 
The album is a large, nearly square book, in color blue, 
stamped with gold design, an album such as was used 
_ years ago by collectors of pretty advertising cards. On 
the inside cover is a book label reading: “From the 
library of John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury, Mass., 
gale authorized by Samuel T. Pikard, literary eee 
Jan. 1903.” On the opposite page appears the auto- 
4 ee as the Bs himself: ‘“ John G. Whittier, Ames- 
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of the ferns, all of which are e from. California, are 
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c ied specimens. No labels were used. 
lens as determined by Whittier is the — 
T 2 Yiego County, | California, — 
se > locality, a Cheilanthes, coffee 
ta Clara County, birdfo ot 
