26 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
this latter that the program planned for it was finally 
not given. 
Several notable additions have been made to the 
Society’s literary possessions. By an exchange with 
the Philippine Journal of Science, we have acquired 
a nearly complete set of Section C, Botany, of that 
publication, containing many of Dr. E. B. Copeland’s 
important papers on tropical ferns. MM. Henri Gadeau 
de Kerville has generously presented to the Society 
several copies of his ‘Notes sur les Fougéres” and 
“Considerations et Recherches sur la Direction des 
Racines et des Tiges.” Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, on 
behalf of the Sullivant Moss Society, has turned over 
to us a quantity of duplicate numbers of the Fern Bul- 
letin. Mr. Winslow has given a set of Prince Bona- 
parte’s Notes Ptéridologiques, and Mrs. Noble a copy 
of Vol. 4 of the Fern Bulletin and one number of Vol. 3: 
Members are again reminded that they may borrow 
any literature owned by the Society. 
Two members, Mrs. Hurd and Mr. Druery, have 
died during the year. Five have resigned; five have 
been dropped for non-payment of dues. Twenty-one 
new members have been received, and the membership 
now (Dec. 31, 1917) stands at 270, a gain of nine ig wes 
last year and, again, a new record for the Society- 
For three years now we have, each year, scored a sma 
advance in number of members over anything Pl 
viously reached. This slow, but apparently solid 
growth carries with it much encouragement; ses 
We must all do our part in seeing that it continue 
during the coming year. More than ever is such effort 
needed now, when the war and the paramount ees 
which it brings to many of us absorb so much of ss 
energies; and when, nevertheless, the light of anath 
and the love of truth need, more than ever, to be kep 
alive and nature offers us more of peace and pro 
than in less troubled times. 
C. A. Wearuersy, Secretary 
