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THE FERN BULLETIN 



the present editor on the subject of nomenclature and 

 species-making is not satisfactory to a certain inter- 

 ested few. In regard to this, we fear we can promise 

 no improvement in future. Our interests are the in- 

 terests of a large circle of readers, and much as we 

 would like to please everybody we cannot do so and 

 continue to think for ourselves. The individual anx- 

 ious to please, usually has not brains enough to do any- 

 thing else. We hope we may escape being placed in 

 this class. Our columns are always open, however, to 

 any member of the Society. He may say what he 

 pleases so long as it is pertinent and will pass unchal- 

 lenged through the mails. We shall therefore continue 

 as we have in the past, trusting to the good sense of the 

 members to second us in our endeavors. 



Since the last report was made the following mem- 

 bers have joined the Society: James Shaw, 

 Owens Sound, Ontario, Canada; Jay G. Under- 

 wood, Hartland, Vt. ; Bremer W. Pond, 1039 

 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. ; Rev. Father 

 J. L. Chandonnet, Perham, Minn. ; Mrs. Chas. B. 

 Lombard, 25 Highland Ave., Newtonville, Mass. ; Har- 

 riet Mulford, Auld Lang Syne, Hemsted, N. Y. ; Mr. 

 Cecil T. Bristol, Manila, P. I. ; Miss B. Muriel Bristol, 

 Birmingham, Eng. ; Francis E. Whitemore. Cortland, 

 N. Y.- 



