THE FERX BULLETIN 



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pay beyond the end of 191:2. This refusing to take in 

 good money when it is offered to him is about the hard- 

 est thing a publisher is ever called upon to perform ; do 

 not make it harder by sending more than the proper 

 amount. But do not forget to send the amount due, 

 else you will fail to receive the magazine. Since a 

 hitherto lenient government has recently become very 

 much peeved over second class rates, we have found i» 

 expedient to stop subscriptions as soon as they expire 

 even if such action should cause delinquents to expire 

 also. 



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This is about the last call for those who have in- 

 complete sets to make them otherwise. We are willing 

 at present to replace soiled, torn or missing copies with 

 new ones, and to sell single volumes at 75 cents each. 

 At the end of the year we will not break sets for any- 

 body. If a subscriber, when renewing . chooses to 

 order one or more back volumes he may have them at 

 50c a volume, but this price holds good only with re- 

 newals or new subscriptions to the volume for 1912 

 and does not include volumes earlier than volume 10. 

 All the earlier valumes are worth more and the first 

 six are out of print. 



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One of the stock arguments made by the agitators in 

 the American Fern Society in favor of a society-owned 

 journal was that thereby they would be spared the an- 

 noyance of a delay in the appearance of the number c 

 A year's experience, however, has been sufficient to 

 demonstrate the futility of their promises in this re- 

 spect. The October issue appeared in December and 

 the January one in March, a most astonishing state of 

 affairs considering all the circumstances. 



