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17—1s proportionately large, just one third of the whole, 
and nearly as many more are known elsewhere only 
from Chile. Easter Island, smaller and farther out in 
the Pacific, can boast of but twelve species, five of them 
here recorded for the first time. Most of them are 
species of wide distribution in the tropics or at least on 
the islands and continental shores of the south Pacific, 
but two (one of them described as new) are endemic and 
one is known elsewhere only from Tahiti. 
American Fern Society 
Partly, at least, because of the delay in issuing the 
last number of the JourNat and consequently in getting 
in the bills for 1920, not all of the officers’ reports were 
ready at the time of going to press. It has been thought 
best to issue this number without waiting for them, 
thereby getting the Journat back to schedule time, or 
near it, and to print all the reports together in the next 
number 
Susan Hubbell Bancroft (Mrs. Edward H.), of New 
York City, a member of the American Fern Society 
since 1916, died on February 11, 1920. 
Mrs. Bancroft took up the scientific study of ferns 
after she was sixty years of age and continued it almost 
to the time of her death at nearly eighty. Her special 
love for ferns had been a life-long passion; and while 
never claiming to be more than an amateur, in these 
later years she made herself an authority on the ferns 
of the locality of her summer home, Greensboro, Ver- 
mont, and was the inspiring influence that started 
many others of the summer colony there in similar 
study. 
3Christensen, Carl and im gig Carl. 
Juan Fernandez Islands. pp. 1-46, figs. 1-7, 
Easter Island. pp. 47-53, aoe 1-3. Upsala, 1920. 
The Pteridophytes of the 
