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THE FERN BULLETIN 



Presented at the Boston Meeting," "Fernwort Papers," 

 and "An Index to the first 10 volumes of the Fern Bul- 

 letin" form a body of considerable size. The first paper 

 contains 82 pages, the second 48 and the third 32. The 

 first three Annual Reports were published in this maga- 

 zine, but the others, ranging from 8 to 20 pages were 

 issued separately. These contain a good deal of mut- 

 ter of more than passing interest and are beginning to 

 be in demand by people not members of the American 

 Fern Society. Such odd numbers of the Annual Re- 

 ports as have accumulated at this office have re- 

 cently been made up into sets and a set will be sent for 

 10c until the supply is exhausted. The best set con- 

 tains a complete set of the Reports, a history of the 

 Fern Chapter, Constitution of the Society, and various 

 papers relating to the meetings of fern students. The 

 three special papers, of course, are not in this collection 

 but they may be purchased separately at a price that is 

 small considering their value. 



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Every little while some kindly disposed subscriber 

 writes to tell the editor how to run the magazine, and 

 when the editor, mindful of past failures and successes 

 declines to depart from the course which he knows is 

 the best, said kindly disposed subscriber is kindly dis- 

 posed no longer. Indeed, he is quite likely to cancel 

 his subscription and write forthwith to his friends, pro- 

 posing to establish a new fern publication that shall 

 simply wipe this magazine and its editor off the map. 

 Sometimes it is a matter of nomenclature that excites 

 the subscriber's ire; again it is the exasperating way the 

 editor has of interpreting species to suit himself, or his 

 failure to be impressed by long descriptions of small 

 differences in big words. Some have seriously pro- 



