AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY 93 
About those questions of Mr. Bates in the last num- 
ber, the last is the easiest to answer. The following 
are a few who study fossil ferns: Prof. C. E. Jeffrey, 
and numerous students, Messrs. F. H. Knowlton, Arthur 
Hollick, E. W. Berry, G. Wieland, and David White, of 
America; Professors Bower, Tansley, Lang, of England, 
. not to go farther. 
R. C. B. 
The prize for the rarest New England fern will prob- 
ably have to go to Cheilanthes lanosa which is known 
only from a single station near New Haven, Conn. 
Asplenium pinnatifidum, with two known stations, is a 
good second. 
C. As W; 
We hope to publish very soon an article by Mr. Raynal 
Dodge containing reminiscences of the early New Eng- 
land fern students, Davenport, the two Eatons and 
others, and giving a particular account of the original 
discovery of Dryopteris. simulata and the hybrid Dry- 
opteris cristata x marginalis. 
American Fern Society 
Tue Socrety’s FERN GARDENS 
In the last number of the JouRNAL, a statement was 
promised of the number and names of the ferns now 
being grown in the fern collection of the Society at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Such a list follows, includ- 
ing all the hardy ferns now growing there, not only 
those sent by members of the Society but also the 
species which were there before the Garden was made a 
depository for the Society. 
