EDITORIAL. 



Very soon after the October number of tins maga- 

 zine was issued, the indexes for volumes 12, 13, 14. 

 15 and 16 were printed and the work completed to 

 date. It has been a long, hard pull to get those de- 

 layed numbers out in addition to our other work, but 

 we have somewhat stubbornly refused to do as most 

 other publications would do under like circumstances 

 and combine two or three issues in one. There is no 

 immediate prospect that we shall again get very far 

 behind our dates, though it must be remembered that 

 the production of fern literature is not going on at 

 the rate it formerly did and unless we have plenty of 

 contributed material the issues must wait until the 

 editor gets time to fill them. Our readers can all call 

 to mind magazines that are thick when articles are 

 plenty and thin when they are not, but this publication 

 always consists of 32 pages and does not purpose mak- 

 ing any change. It is therefore up to our contributors 

 to do their share. If those who do not like to publish 

 in Fern Bulletin would only publish in some other 

 magazine so that we could copy their articles it would 

 not be so bad, but to have no chance to even purloin 

 from other publications is the limit. This magazine 

 will continue to appear if everybody else ceases to 

 write about ferns, but we would appreciate more con- 

 tributions. 



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The recently issued indexes have been sent to all 

 that have indicated a desire for them. Any other sub- 

 scriber who would like them has only to make his 

 wants known and they will be sent postpaid. We did 

 not print a very large surplus and it would be well to 

 order soon. 



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