American Fern Society 
Plans are on foot for a meeting of the Society at 
Pittsburgh in December, in connection with the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Science. In- 
formation can be obtained from the Curator. 
The Society has received word of the death at London, 
on August 8th last, of Mr. Charles T. Druery, Secretary 
of the British Pteridological Society, editor of the British 
Fern Gazette and since 1900 a valued member of the 
Fern Society and an occasional contributor to the JouR- 
NAL. Biographical details are not available at present: 
but readers of the Fern Bulletin and the JouRNAL in past 
years do not need to be told that Mr. Druery’s chief 
interest was in growing ferns and perpetuating their 
forms, and that he sometimes had scant sympathy 
with those who found occupation and pleasure among 
the dead things of the herbarium. He had published 
several books, the best known of them, perhaps, @% 
elaborate descriptive work on British ferns and their 
many named varieties and forms. 
The Horticultural Society of New York has under- 
taken to establish a fund to be devoted to the replanting 
of the orchards in the war-devastated regions of France. 
This fund will be distributed through the Americaa 
Red Cross and the Societé d’Horticulture de France. 
Contributions are especially solicited from all inter 
m botany and horticulture and may be sent to 
George Y. Nash, New York Botanical Garden, Brom 
Park, New York City. 
The Judge of Elections, Mr. H. C. Bigelow, reports 
the reélection of the present officers at the annual ~ 
tion. The full text of his report will be printed Me 
the annual reports in the next number of the JouRNAM — 
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