THE FERX BULLETIN 



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in our larger magazine. Our only reason for con- 

 tinuing the magazine to the end of its twentieth vol- 

 ume is one of sentiment, but sentiment has entered 

 largely into the publication of the magazine from the 

 first, and may as well continue to govern it. Very 

 few scientific magazines in America have lived as 

 lonof as the Fern Bulletin has. In the extended list of 

 defunct publications on plants we can not find a single 

 one that has lasted twenty years and we purpose set- 

 ting a mark, while we are about it. that no other fern 

 publication can hope to attain. But twenty years is 

 the limit. In paying for subscriptions hereafter our 

 patrons will please not pay beyond the end of 1912. 

 Those who wish to have the paying over with, once 

 for all, may send us $1.25 and become a new kind of 

 life subscriber whose subscription will end with the 

 life of the magazine. Those who wish to pay for each 

 volume as issued may, of course, continue to do so. 

 We trust that everybody will nenew and thus help us 

 to finish with a flourish. In a few years more the 

 back numbers of this magazine will be scattered far 

 and wide, and when it is too late many will discover 

 that they need complete sets. It is best to make sure 

 of your own set at once. W nen we do not have to 

 break files we will supply any back volume for 75 

 cents ; otherwise purchasers will have to pay the added 

 cost. Single numbers that people are now offering 

 $2 each for could once be had for five cent? apiece. 

 Better order now. 



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A few people, unacquainted with the facts, have 

 feared that the decision of the American Fern Society 

 to issue a publication in which to print its reports will 

 in some way affect the publication of The Fern Bulle- 



