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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. 



Advertising Rates given upon application. 



Articles upon any subject in fern study solicited. 



Communications intended for the editor should be addressed to Willard 

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



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Another volume of the Fern Btllktin is completed with this 

 number. As it has progressed we have not failed to note several 

 features which we believe can be improved upon in the new vol- 

 ume. In doing this we shall attempt to meet the expectations of 

 those readers who take it for granted that every volume shall be 

 an improvement upon the one that preceded it. It is almost need- 

 less to add that a prompt renewal of subscriptions will have an 

 immediate effect upon these improvements. We would also urge 

 that our readers speak of the journal to their friends. With a 

 larger circle of readers, we shall be able to make a journal that 

 approaches much nearer to our ideas of what such a publication 

 should be. 



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Beginning with the next number we shall publish an exchange 

 column, in response to a considerable demand for one. Members 

 of the Fern and Moss Chapters and subscribers to this journal will 

 receive coupons entitling them to notices in this column at nom- 

 inal rates; to others the price will be twenty-five cents for twenty- 

 five words. Members' coupons will be sent by the treasurers of 

 the Chapters upon payment of dues. Subscribers' coupons will 

 be mailed from this office. 



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The success of the Boston meeting has emboldened us to try 

 it again, and it is likely that an annual meeting will be a regular 

 feature of the Chapter in future. Although this was the first 



