EDITORIAL. 



Readers of this magazine should keep in mind the 

 fact that we are always glad to replace free any soiled 

 or torn copies sent out. It is manifestly impossible 

 for us to see every page of any issue and occasionally 

 the printer's devil leaves the inpress of his hoof or 

 claws on a sheet that gets past us, but any who re- 

 ceive copies of this kind should ask for new ones at 

 once. Now that another volume is completed it would 

 be well for subscribers to examine their files and if any 

 copies are not in good condition to secure perfect ones 

 without delay, since the numbers on hand are now 

 made up into volumes and any odd numbers left over 

 are sent out as sample copies. It is not necessary to re- 

 turn the soiled copy ; ask for the new one you want. 

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The suggestion so often made in these pages that 

 fern study in other parts of the world would be helped 

 by another publication devoted to the subject, has at 

 last borne fruit in the shape of The British Fern 

 Gazette the first number of which bears date of Sep- 

 tember 1909. The magazine is issued by the British 

 Ptericlological Society and is edited by Mr. Charles 

 T. Druery well and favorably known to readers of 

 The Fern Bulletin. This first issue is a very attract- 

 ive one, the most attractive one that could be made, 

 we are inclined, with pardonable pride, to think, since 

 it is the exact size of onr own publication and duplicates 

 numbers of a few years ago even to the color of the 

 cover the possession of a frontispiece and the style of 

 type. This, however, is said in no disparagement of 

 the magazine, for it is quite desirable that fern litera- 

 ture have something like uniformity in the style of its 



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