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THE FERN BULLETIN 



Death of James Goldie. — With much regret we 

 record the death of James Goldie which occurred at 

 his home in Guelph, Canada, November 3rd, 1912, in 

 the 88th year of his age. The passing of James Goldie 

 severs another interesting link connecting us with the 

 past, for he was the son of that John Goldie after 

 whom Nephrodium Goldieanum was named. The 

 elder Goldie was born in Scotland 120 years ago and 

 came to America in 1817 on a botanical collecting trip 

 at the suggestion of Sir William Hooker. He spent 

 several years in this work in Canada and the Middle 

 States and dispatched three different collections to 

 Europe but had the misfortune to lose all of them by 

 shipwreck. Making a fourth collection he took ship 

 himself and at last got safely home. In this last col- 

 lection was the wood fern which has since borne his 

 name and which was named in his honor by his patron, 

 Hooker. In 1824 Goldie was engaged by the Russian 

 government to aid in forming the botanical garden at 

 St. Petersburg and in 1844 with his family he return- 

 ed to America, settling at Ayr Ontario. Here he re- 

 sided until his death in 1896 at the age of 94 years. 

 James Goldie had much of his father's interest in 

 plants though he did not make a profession of botany. 

 He has been a subscriber to the Fern Bulletin almost 

 since its beginning. 



Crested Christmas Fern. — The Christmas fern 

 (Polystichum acrostichoides) is so common as to be 

 known to almost anybody, and yet it is a question 

 whether it has ever been found with crested fronds un- 

 til discovered recently by Mr. Amedee Hans near Lo- 

 cust Valley, Long Island, N. Y. Mr. Hans writes that 

 he has been trying for a long time to develop a crested 



