THE AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY. 



Formerly Linncean Fern Chapter. 



The membership folder that is now ready to send out 

 is a new departure for the Society. The front page is 

 devoted to an invitation to membership, and succeeding 

 pages give an account of the Society, the Officers for the 

 year, the Advisory Council, and various additional para- 

 graphs containing information that members will find 

 useful. One of the back pages is a printed receipt for 

 dues, which is signed by the Treasurer when dues are 

 sent, and thus remains a permanent part of the folder. 

 Copies of this folder will be sent to every member. Those 

 who have paid dues will find their receipt included. 

 Extra copies of this folder may be had by addressing 

 either the Secretary or the Treasurer. If you have any 

 fern-loving friends that are not members of the Society, 

 by all means send them a copy. 



The Woodsia Chapter. 



The new Chapter of the Society, located at Muscatine, 

 la., has been in existence as a fern club for nearly a year. 

 Monthly meetings are held for the discussion of subjects 

 pertaining to ferns, and. in suitable weather, botanizing 

 excursions to the haunts of the rarer ferns are planned. 

 Such excursions include picnics and other similar pleas- 

 ures. The Chapter has most of the American works on 

 ferns, and obtains both pleasure and profit from the study. 

 The membership consists of five congenial spirits, no 

 effort being made for a larger number because of the 

 devastation that might ensue if a larger party visited a 

 rare species. We trust that the chapter will have a long 

 and pleasant existence. 



At a recent meeting of the Linnaean Society Mr. 

 Charles T. Druery recorded a case of apospory in the 

 common polypody and of apogamic buds in Cystopteris 



montana. 



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