30 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
The Secretary has received information of three mem- 
bers of the Society who have been in active service 
during the war. They are: Mr. Walter Mattern, with 
the engineers, and Messrs E. P. Killip and M. E. Woodams 
with machine-gun units. All three have been in France. 
The Secretary earnestly requests any other members of 
the Society who have been in the Army or Navy to 
notify him, so that due record may be made. 
During the year two members, Messrs C. K. Dodge 
and Raynal Dodge, have died. Ten have resigned and 
six have been dropped for non-payment of dues. 13 
new members have been received. The number of mem- 
bers at the date of this report (Dec. 31, 1918) is 265, a 
loss of five from last year. This loss is doubtless due to 
external conditions: it can soon be more than made up if 
all the members will work their neighborhoods for new 
recruits as thouroughly as a few have done theirs. 
__ After a service of five years, the present Secretary quits 
office the richer for many pleasant memories and new 
and valued acquaintances and with hearty gratitude to 
the officers and members with whom he has worked for 
their generally cordial codperation with and kindness 
toward him. He wishes the new Council and the Society 
under their leaedrship all possible prosperity and success. 
. A. WeaTHERsy, Secretary 
Report of the Editors for 1918 
War conditions first and later influenza have consider- 
ably slowed up the work of ‘publishing the JourNAL both 
at the printers’ end and that of the editors, and also in 
the intermediate stage of transportation. As a result, 
all the numbers for the year have been more or less late. 
For this the editor chiefly concerned with the make-up 
of the JouRNAL apologizes (the other two have nothing to 
apologize for) and begs the indulgence of the members. 
He will try to do better in the future. 
