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28 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
The Herbarium now numbers 2426 mounted sheets, 
192 sheets having been added since the last report, up 
to January 1, 1917. 
Dr. O. E. Jennings gave 19 sheets; Prof. F. T. Mac- 
Farland, 2 sheets; Mr. C. L. Gruber, 4 sheets; Mr. C. H. 
Bissell, 114 sheets; while 55 sheets were donated by the 
members who attended the Society field meeting at 
Syracuse. 
Some 200 much needed genus covers were purchased 
in September and placed in immediate use. 
Eight members borrowed material for study during 
the year and several were helped in making identifi- 
cations of specimens sent in. 
L. 8. Hopkins, Curator. 
Report of the Editors for 1916 
The editors of the Fern Journa are concerned with 
two things: the material received for publication, both 
as to its quality and quantity; and the amount of money 
available for its publication. The following quotation 
from a recent letter will serve very appropriately as.a 
basis for a discussion of the present status of these 
editorial problems. 
“T did not realize that the Fern JouRNAL was SO 
favored as to have so much material, neither did I wish 
to bother you by having you tell me so much about it. 
Nevertheless I am glad to know it. I wonder if we 
could not get money enough somehow to unload all of 
the material into one good fat copy of the JouRNAL. 
I realize the Society is small and doubtless our finances 
will not let us be very ambitious in the matter of pub- 
lications.”’ 
Regarding the amount of material, we have usually 
articles for two numbers in advance, that is, for six 
months ahead. In general, articles are published in 
the order of receipt, but occasionally there is reason 
