EDITORIAL. 



In this issue we again reprint matter from the out- 

 of-print volumes of the Fern Bulletin. It has always 

 been a matter of regret to many of our subscribers 

 that these early volumes are unobtainable. At one 

 time it was proposed to re-issue these numbers, but 

 the project did not appear feasible and was abandoned. 

 Although there was much in the original volumes that 

 is no longer valuable, there is also much that is still 

 worth reading. It is this matter that we hope to re- 

 print from time to time. 



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At the end of another year, when this magazine 

 changes hands, we expect to make up all the volumes 

 into sets and destroy the odd numbers that have ac- 

 cumulated. We therefore give notice, that until the 

 end of the year we will gladly supply, free, any copies 

 of this magazine that may be missing from the files of 

 our subscribers if we can do so without breaking 

 volumes. Now is the time to exchange torn or soiled 

 copies for good ones. We may add, that we have no 

 odd numbers of volumes 1 to 5 or of volume and 

 very few of some of the others. It is well, therefore, 

 to apply at once. After the magazines are made up 

 into sets, we shall not, of course, break a set to supply 

 a single volume. Those who lack the early numbers 

 should order at once else they may later fail to obtain 

 them at all. * * * 



The president of the American Fern Society has ap- 

 pointed a committee to again revise the Constitution. 

 This Constitution has served the Society for nearly a 

 fifth of a century and appears now to most of the mem- 

 bers to stand in no urgent need of revision. There is, 

 however, a disposition manifested upon the part of a 



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