AMERICAN FERN Socretry 31 
War conditions and the new interests and duties which 
they have brought to many of us also tended to reduce 
the abundant stream of copy which has hitherto flowed 
in to the Journau. We end the year with about enough 
articles on hand to fill one number, but no more, and 
with the once flourishing notes and news department at 
the point of death from lack of sustenance. Articles 
and notes, long and short, from the members, will there- 
fore be especially welcome: “more copy”’ is our message 
to them this year. 
As for money, we always want that. 
R. C. BENEDICT 
K. J. WInstow 
C. A. WEATHERBY 
Editors 
Report of the Curator for 1918 
If one may judge of the activities of the Society by 
the interest of its members in the herbarium, the past year 
has not been one full of enthusiastic study of Pterido- 
phytes. 
Only two members have made use of material in the 
herbarium and only two accessions have been made to it. 
Mr. D. LeRoy Topping has sent a splendid collection 
of about three hundred sheets mainly from North Bor- 
neo. Mr. J. B. Flett has collected some eighteen or twenty 
species of interesting material from Mt. Rainier National 
Park a set of which will be added to the Society her- 
barium. These, with a few miscellaneous sheets added 
by the curator, make up the sum total of the additions 
during the year. 
L. 8. Hopkins, Curator. 
