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— We have been unable to fill several orders for back numbers 

 of the Bulletin through lack of No. 1, Vol. iv. We will pay any 

 reasonable price for a few copies of this issue. If you have a copy 

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— The announcement is made that a new scientific magazine to 

 be known as the Natural Scim.ce Journal, will make its appearance 

 this month from New Bedford, Mass. There are to be seven de- 

 partments devoted to the Natural Sciences, each with its own edi- 

 tor. Mr. F. G. Hillman, of New Bedford, will act as managing 

 editor. 



— The newly issued "Perns and Fern Allies of New England,' 1 

 by Kaynal Dodge, is a book unique in many respects. In upwards 

 of sixty pages the ferns and allied plants of New England are 

 clearly described in scientific language making it easy for anyone 

 with this book in hand to identify all the species with certainty. 

 The species are numbered according to the "Fern List," and Mr. 

 Davenport's new fern, Dryopteris oristatan marginalis, is here giv- 

 en a place for the first time. Special attention has been given to 

 that perplexing group, the Quillworts, with i he result that two 

 species new to science have been added. In the chapter entitled 

 "Remarks on the Genus Isoetes," much valuable information on 

 the collection and identification of these plants is given. The book 

 ends with a chronological list of the species, in which they are 

 catalogued by their time of fruiting, making it easy for the collect- 

 or to ascertain what plants are fit to collect on any particular day. 

 The book is 16-mo in size, just suitable to go in one's pocket, and 

 may well accompany the fern lover on nis excursions. It is pub- 

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