THE FERN BULLETIN 



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doubt this explains why one has an abundant fern 

 flora and the other none at all. Large areas of the 

 desert are also without ferns, but as a general thing 

 ferns are not entirely missing from American deserts. 

 Here and there a species, adapted to the rigorous con- 

 ditions, finds safety and a home. 



AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY. 



The Society continues to increase in membership. 

 Since the last report the following have joined us : Miss 

 Alice M. Paine, Sebago Lake, Maine, Mrs. Edward C. 

 Chatfield, 613 Fulton St., Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. 

 Thomas G. Lee, 509 River Road S. E., Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Mr. H. Harwood Tracy, Claremont, Calif., Mr. 



C. Edward Jones, State Education Dept. Albany, N. 

 Y., Mr. Charles W. Jenks, Stonecroft Farm, Bedford, 

 Mass., Mr. Henry C. Bigelow, Xew Britain, Conn., 

 Mrs. \Y. F. Brooks, New Britain, Conn., Mrs. Agnes 

 M. Paxson, 64 Oak Street, Lowell,, Mass. 



The following changes of address should be noted in 

 the list of members. The address of Henry P. Walker 

 should be 1208 Union Street, Schenectady, N. Y., that 

 of Dr. C. E. Waters to Bureau of Soils, Washington, 



D. C, A. Hans, to Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y., 

 Miss A. D. Choate to 523 Pendleton Ave., St. Louis. 

 Miss Mary A. Andrews, 283 Elizabeth Street, New 

 York. Rev. S. M. Newman to Front Royal, Va. 



It has been some time since the constitution of the 

 American Fern Society was printed and it is suggested 

 that new members would be glad to see it published in 

 the forthcoming annual report. If there is room for 

 it this will probably be done. 



