EDITORIAL. 



The last number of this magazine — that for October 

 1912 — will be a comprehensive index of the publica- 

 tion for the past ten years. This, with the index to the 

 first ten volumes, will form an exceedingly valuable 

 index to the fern literature of America, covering, as 

 it does, the whole period of popular fern study. It 

 begins some years before the appearance of any popu- 

 lar fern book and has either published entire all im- 

 portant articles issued since or given a summary of 

 them. Mr. S. Fred Prince, long a member of the 

 Fern Society is already at work on the index and we 

 hope to issue it not later than the end of the year. 



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Further information received from the purchaser of 

 the complete set of this magazine recently sent to 

 Germany, apprises us of the fact that the set is not 

 to remain in Europe. It was purchased for a cus- 

 tomer in South America (Argentine), therefore the 

 set owned by M. C. Belhatte at Paris is the only one in 

 Europe. The recent set is also the only complete set 

 in South America, and there are not, so far as we are 

 aware, complete sets in other parts of the Old World 

 though the set at the Tokyo Botanical Garden ought 

 to be nearly complete and the set owned by D. Leroy 

 Topping at Manila lacks only two numbers. 



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Next year it will be too late to get odd numbers to 

 complete files that lack them. When this magazine 

 goes out of business we shall retain only complete 

 volumes. This is the time for all who need odd num- 

 bers to ask for them. We have recently advertised 

 to send any back volume later than volume 9 for 50 

 cents and this offer will hold good until the end of the 

 year. After that time, single volumes cannot be had 



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