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issues of the JournaL. These essays, advocating moderation in 
the gathering of wild plants, with reference to the kinds most in 
need of protection were reprinted from the JouRNAL in editions of 
500 and were freely distributed to other journals and to news- 
papers with requests for republication in whole or in abstract ; 
these requests were widely granted so that the topic has in this 
way been brought to the attention of many thousand people. 
Either the reprinted essays, or copies of the journal containing 
them, have also been widely distributed to teachers, with the re- 
quest that children under their charge be informed of the desir- 
ability of giving heed to the subject ; they have also been sent to 
officers and members of botanical clubs and societies in the cities 
and larger towns. That the movement has attracted much atten- 
tion is shown by the fact that the editions of 500 reprinted copies 
were rapidly exhausted. The first essay printed was republished 
by one of the botanical journals and reprinted therefrom in an 
edition of 2,000 copies which have mainly been distributed. 
This presentation of the subject has led to the formation of the 
“National Society for the Preservation of Wild Flowers,” which 
already has a considerable membership, and has adopted the- 
journal Plant World as its organ, this journal agreeing to give 
special prominence in its columns to the objects of the new society; 
this organization will serve a very useful means for the continuous 
prosecution of the campaign against wild plant destruction, it 
being planned to organize local chapers of it at as many points 
as possible. 
Important emphasis has been laid upon the need for the pres- 
ervation of tracts of woodland and thicket in their natural con- 
dition as public or private reservations and a number of lectures 
and addresses bearing on the subject have been delivered at 
different places by persons interested in the movement. 
N 
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L. Britton. 
ACCESSIONS. 
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS FROM JULY 12 To SEPTEMBER 10. 
Abentheur der tivalich i R lich Sachen in Sina und Europa Franck- 
furt, 1656. 
AcHarius, E, Lich hiae Suecicae prod Lincopiae, 1798. 
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