EDITORIAL. 



The missing number of this magazine for October 

 1907 is partly in print at this w riting, but it will not 

 be sent out until the October number for this year is 

 ready when the two will be sent together. At the same 

 time the title pages and tables of contents for volumes 

 12, 13. 1-L and 15. which have been promised so long, 

 will be issued, but since some of our subscribers do not 

 bind the magazine, and therefore do not care for the 

 title pages, copies of these will not be sent out to our 

 regular list. Copies will be sent to all public libraries 

 and scientific institutions without further notice be- 

 cause these carefully preserve the magazine, but others 

 who wish the title-pages are requested to indicate the 

 fact. The pages are absolutely free and postpaid and 

 all that is needed to secure them is a request at any 

 time. 



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A complete set of the Ferx Bulletin has recently 

 been acquired by C. Belhatte. 7 Rue Fresnel. Paris. 

 France. This is the only complete set of the magazine 

 in the Old World and will doubtless be valued accord- 

 ingly. It also adds one more to our list of complete 

 sets making twenty-nine in all. The herbarium in 

 which M. Belhatte is in charge is the largest in France 

 containing about *25.000 sheets of ferns and more than 

 a million flowering plants. He is desirous of adding 

 more tropical ferns to his collection and offers in ex- 

 change for them, European plants, botanical works or 

 cash. 



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A feature of fern study that has not. as yet. been 

 very extensively exploited in America, is the search for 



