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Dr. Small’s article is illustrated with five fine plates 
of a fern grotto and of various species in their natural 
surroundings. 
American Fern Society 
Dr. O. E. Jennings, Judge of Elections for this year, 
reports the results of the October balloting as follows. 
All the proposed amendments to the Constitution were 
adopted, the first three by 96 votes for to none against, 
the fourth by 95 for and one against. The vote for 
officers was: for President, William R. Maxon, 104; for 
Vice-President, Miss M. A. Marshall, 103, Mrs. Car- 
lotta C. Hall, 1; for Secretary, Stewart H. Burnham, 
104; for Treasurer, J. G. Underwood, 104. Eight mem- 
bers who voted for officers failed to vote, either pro or 
con, on the amendments. 
The editors wish to make grateful acknowledgment 
of a generous gift of ten dollars from Mr. F. C. Greene 
for the general purposes of the JouRNAL and of smaller, 
but none the less welcome, gifts for illustrations from 
Miss Anne S. Angell, Miss Annie Lorenz, Miss Nellie 
Mirick and Dr. Herman Burgin. 
The Society has recently received the gift of six vol- 
umes of the Fern Bulletin from Dr. Ruth Marshall; also 
six numbers of the Bulletin from Prof. 5. Fred Prince 
and a copy of the rare number three of volume one of 
the Journant. Mr. Carl Christensen has presented 
copies of four of his recent papers, New Species of Hym- 
enophyllaceae from Madagascar, Monograph of the Genus 
Dryopteris, Part II, The Pteridophyta of the Juan Fern- 
andez Islands and The Ferns of Easter Island. The last 
two were written in collaboration with Dr. Carl Skotts- 
berg. All of the four are, or soon will be, available for 
lending to members. 
