62 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
a small artificial brook, and a section to correspond with 
the ordinary upland woods. Wagon loads of leaf mould 
are already present, waiting for plants. A list of the 
species now at the Garden will be published in the next 
number, but it will be safe in the meantime to send in 
any kinds no matter how common, for the garden should 
represent not only species but distribution. 
ROB 
As reported last fall, a second Society fern garden has 
been begun at the Harvard Botanic Garden and a third 
will be started during the coming season at the Missouri 
Botanical Garden at St. Louis. These collections of 
living plants bid fair to become one of the most interest- 
ing features of the Society’s work. We cannot all have 
fern gardens of our own; but now we can all have a place 
where the ferns we find—and especially the rare and 
interesting forms which might be lost—will be cultivated 
and given expert care. And all we have to do is to 
send them in. The Society is much indebted to the 
authorities of the botanic gardens concerned for their 
cordial co-operation. 
The Secretary has only just received word of the death 
of two of our members during 1915—Mr. Edwin Parsons 
Wentworth on June 30, and Rev. Fr. Zephyrin Leonard 
Chandonnet in November, 
Father Chandonnet was born at Pierre de Bequet, 
Canada, July 10, 1848 He was ordained a priest of the 
Roman Catholic Church in 1874 and served that church 
in many places, including Trinidad and the West Indies. 
At the time of his death he was priest of St. James’s 
hospital at Perham, Minn. With him, botany was a 
cherished and zealously pursued avocation and it was 
“no uncommon sight to see his venerable figure in the 
fields and woods” about Perham. He had many botani- 
cal correspondents both in this country and abroad. 
