Amprican Fern Journal 
Vol. 7 JANUARY-MARCH, 1917 No. 1 
Rev. James A. Bates 
In the death of Rev. James Atwood Bates the Ameri- 
can Fern Society has lost an ex-president and a charter 
member whose botanical experience goes back a long 
generation before the beginning of popular fern study 
in America. It is almost startling to realize that he 
began collecting plants in the days of Thoreau, while 
D. C. Eaton was a school boy, about the time of the 
[No. 4 of the JouRNAL (6: pages 97-136, Plate 6) was issued Dec. 13, 
1916.] 
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