EDITORIAL. 



In the fifteen years of its existence this magazine has 

 made more records and in greater variety than any other 

 in existence. At present we feel confident that we can 

 claim the record for the longest interval between issues. 

 There are two chief reasons for this. First, the editor 

 is trying to handle more work than any two men ought 

 to, and second, the magazine is still published at Bing- 

 hamton and the distance is responsible for many delays. 

 To remedy this the editor has already planned a great 

 reduction in his work for 1908, and beginning with the 

 new year the magazine will be moved to Joliet, thus sav- 

 ing much time. Meanwhile the dates of the various 

 numbers will indicate not the time they were issued, but 

 the time they ought to have been. A cheap way of 

 catching up, when a magazine gets behind, is to issue 

 two or three issues in one, but that is not our style. 

 Every issue of this magazine contains 32 pages and a 

 frontispiece and our subscribers will get all that is due 

 them. We shall not ask for new subscriptions till the 

 old ones are filled and hope our subscribers will continue 

 to be indulgent to our shortcomings. 



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The next number of this magazine will complete fifteen 

 years of continuous publication and our readers may ex- 

 pect something out of the ordinary in consequence. Some 

 of the features that will appear in this issue have never 

 appeared in any other botanical magazine. It is also our 

 wish to have as many of our old contributors represented 

 in this issue as possible and we hereby invite all to send 

 us at least a short note for the issue. Fifteen years in 

 the study of ferns is a long time, measured by what has 

 occurred since the first Fern Bulletin appeared. We 

 hope those who have all these years helped it on to success 



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