24 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
In making up the budget, no account was made of 
expected receipts from the sale of back numbers of the 
JouRNAL. As time goes on, these back numbers will 
be a valuable asset of the Society, but the amount re- 
ceived from year to year is uncertain and the Council 
believes that whatever is received from this source 
should not be used for current expense, but set aside 
for emergency or special work. 
I doubt if the members begin to appreciate the amoun 
of unselfish, unpaid work the editors of your JouRNAL 
are constantly giving to the Society. Just the matter 
of necessary correspondence takes a great deal of time. 
The editors are busy men, so, if your JourNaL happens 
to be a little late in coming, make allowances. The 
herbarium of the Society deserves and should have more 
done for it than we have been able to do this year; and 
the thanks of the Society should be given also to Curator 
Hopkins for the time and labor he is giving to it. 
We have a cordial invitation from one of our Cali- 
fornia members, Prof. Badé, of Berkeley, Cal., to have 
a meeting of the Society there when the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science holds its ses- 
sions there next summer, rooms for the meeting being 
available in the Botanical Building of the University of 
California, and it is proposed to arrange for such a meet- 
ing. The distance will prevent many of our members 
from attending, but some of them will undoubtedly visit 
the Pacific coast the coming summer and this meeting 
will give them a fine opportunity to get acquainted with 
the California botanists. 
A second invitation from California, from Mr. H. H. 
Tracy, suggests the possibility of a field meeting for a 
week or more to some one of the great natural features 
of California, such as the mountains, the big trees, or 
Yosemite, with a chance to get well acquainted with 
some of the native ferns as they grow naturally. Such 
Peni Bole e would not, Mr. Tracy writes, be very expensive. 
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