NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS 



§2,000 



toward the support of the Botanical Gazette and it is not probable that the amount 

 of this subsidy can be increased. At the same time, the cost of pubhcation has been 

 increasing, until the editors are now compelled to decide whether the number of 

 pages shall be reduced or the subscription price increased. 



manufacti; 



ANIC 



more plates, and 5c per cent, more text figures, for 23 per cent, less money than 

 the average of five European journals of the first rank. 



A tabulated comparison of the number of pages, figures, and plates, and the 



siibmitt 



domestic subscription prices of these journals for ^ ^ 



your information. They have been selected because^ they are of the same general 



type as the Botaxical Gazette. 



Journal 



Year 



Vol. no. 



Botanische Zeitung 



Flora 



Jahrbucber fiir wissenschaflliche Bo 



tanik 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Bo- 

 lanique 



Annals of Botany. 





Botanical Gazette 





Average for above five journals 



Average for Botanical Gazette 



1906 

 1907 



1906 

 1907 



1906 

 1907 



1906 

 1907 



1906 

 1907 



1906 

 1907 



Equivalent number when reduced to 8vo 



64 



65 

 96 



97 



43 

 44 



3) 4 



20 

 21 



41, 42 



43 > 44 



No. 



pages 



*8i6 



*Si6 



544 



430 

 628 

 724 



766 



745 



474 



543 



983 

 907 



648 



945 



No. 

 plates 



No. text 



figures 



8 



5 



5 

 14 



5 

 7 



II 

 12 



35 

 19 

 46 



44 



39 



258 



134 

 82 



63 



257 

 304 



43 

 41 



177 



187 



12 



45 



122 

 182 



Price 



(domes 



tic) 



$6.00 



6.00 



5.00 

 5.00 



7.00 

 9.00 



6.00 

 •6.00 



7-50 



7-5° 

 5.00 

 5.00 



6.50 

 5.00 



It is evident from this comparison that the Botanical Gazette is farbelo^vthe 

 standard of price set by these journals; and the cost of manufacture abroad is 



Cldedlv lose fhixr^ ^r^ fl.;.- .... 



cidedly less than in this country. 



The advice of numerous botanists has been sought and freely given, ^f\ 

 ^eat unanimity their opinion favors the maintenance of the present standard ol ^ 

 («o pp., which wc have not always been able to maintain), with an increased su 

 scnption pnce , for it seems evident that the pressure for pubhcation is mcreas^.- 

 rather than diminishing. Furthermore, these botanists have suggested a more rigi^ 

 e ection of original papers, a greater compression of these papers in text and U -^^ 

 trations, a franker expression of opinion in reviews, and the abandonment ot 

 department of ''News." These suggestion, will be Adopted. 



.rHr!!,-^^ o *"" ^'^""^^ rftuation, it has been decided to incieasc 

 scnption to $7.00. in t\.^ K.i;..f .1,,. ., . . ... ^ f.,; 



lal su^ 



%.oc, in the behof'thof ii.„ 71^r^n!..^c<.^fc a fair charge fo^" ' 



from suD- 

 enable 



semVe A A "'-^i'-i luciL tne amouni represenis a ^cnx ~- 



.rnntf.n^° nl ^^ '' """^ expected, however, that the increased income 



us to m?T be sufficient (together with the present subsidy) to do more ^^ 



to maintain the present size and to improve, where necessary, the illustrations. 



Ahcnewrate will anr.l,-f^ ..„v. . .. ,' . . .., ./. t„i,. number (i 



and 



rp, X -x^v. oiivi lu improve, wnere 



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