ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY 
Report of the President for 1914. 
To the members of the American Fern Society: 
The work of the Society for the past year has been 
handicapped to a certain extent by the inexperience of 
three of its officers, its president, secretary, and treasurer 
all being new to their positions. Prof. Hopkins, who 
was re-elected secretary, found that other duties claimed 
his attention and did not take office for 1914, the presi- 
dent being obliged to appoint to fill the vacancy. From 
my knowledge of the working of similar organizations I 
am sure the best interests of the Society require that 
the offices of secretary and treasurer should be made 
as nearly permanent as possible. I am glad to say that 
the men who held these positions for 1914 have been 
re-elected, and I sincerely hope that the members will 
see fit to continue them in office from year to year as 
long as they are willing to serve. 
Soon after taking office it came to my knowledge that 
the Society did not possess a file of the Fern Bulletin, 
in which publications of its members appeared for a 
series of years, and that it did not even own a file of its 
own annual reports. This seemed a mistake and some 
correspondence was undertaken to try to remedy the 
defect. Through the generosity of Miss Mirick and 
we have a member who has a set of the Fern Bulletin 
that they might be willing to donate to the Society, I 
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