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for more assistance in the way of practical contributions 

 to our cult by the members as well as the enlistment of 

 further members with a view to the improvement of the 

 " Gazette" by the aid of increased funds. The Editor 

 would remind those members who have joined after 

 Volume i was completed, that a small number of Volume 2 

 (Nos. 13 to 24, 313 pages) have been bound, together with 

 a portrait of Dr. F. W. Stansneld as frontispiece, and 

 that these volumes can be had by members for 3s. gd., post 

 free. As the issue is inevitably limited, and the books in 

 the future are certain to be of value, this opportunity of 

 acquiring a copy should not be lost. 



The subscriptions for 1915 -16 being due in advance, 

 the Hon. Secretary would feel much obliged by a 

 remittance of 5s. at an early date to 11, Shaa Road, 

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• IMPORTANT. 



In our June issue we referred to a previous publication 

 issued many years ago on " Gazette " lines, which, however, 

 was unfortunately but very short lived. We are now, how- 

 ever, happy to state that a copy of that publication being 

 possessed by the Editor, Mr. W. B. Cranfield has very 

 kindly and generously volunteered to provide therefrom a 

 reproduction of Mr. G. B. Wollaston's very important 

 paper on, and specification of, the differences between the 

 three sub-species of the Male Fern (Lastvea filix mas), to 

 the definition of which he devoted some twenty years of 

 study. The detailed specification, dated October 29th, 

 1874, * n th e form of an illustrated chart, has been litho- 

 graphically reproduced, and is of such great botanical 

 interest as to render it a matter of congratulation that it 

 has been, so to speak, resurrected and thus brought well 

 within the cognizance of our present-day fern students. 

 Mr. Wollaston's paper, referring thereto and elucidating it, 





