FERN BULLETIN. 



A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO FERNS. 



Official Organ of the Linnaean Fern Chapter, 



WILLARD N. CLUTE, Editor. 



THE FERN BULLETIN CO., Publishers, Binchamton, N. Y. 

 Subscriptions, fifty cents per annum. 



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Articles upon any subject in fern study solicited. 



Communications intended for the editor should be addressed to Willard 

 N. C/ute, 6jE. 4Qth St., New York City. 



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Again it is our pleasure to call attention to the fact that the 

 Fern Bulletin has added four more pages to each issue. The 

 cordial support given to our Moss Department has warranted 

 us in making this enlargement. While primarily intended to 

 aid the moss students, all our readers will receive the benefit, 

 as no increase in price is contemplated. Beginning with this 

 issue, the Moss Department will also be issued separately at 

 twenty-five cents a year. This is to enable students of the 

 mosses to keep the moss literature separate if so desired. Only 

 a limited number of copies will be thus issued, and those who 

 wish a complete set should subscribe at once. The rapidity with 

 which the early numbers of the Bulletin disappeared is likely to 

 be repeated in the case of the Bryologist. Dr. Grout will con- 

 tinue to have editorial supervision of the journal. 



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The Fern Chapter has adopted a plan of study which can 

 but result in the discovery of many new facts regarding our 

 ferns. Supplementing this we wish to offer a modest prize for 

 original work among these plants, and for the best article or 

 series of notes upon any one of our ferns or fern allies received 

 before October i, 1898, we will give a copy of a fern book by 

 Underwood, Robinson, Cooke or Dodge, as the writer may select. 

 To win this prize it is only necessary to study carefully the fern 

 nearest at hand, and send us the result of your observations. 

 Papers in response to this offer should be marked, "Submitted 

 for the Prize." 



