THE FERN BULLETIN 



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THE NEW ANNUAL REPORT 



It is probable that the necessity of hustling for of- 

 fice prevented the secretary from getting out an ade- 

 quate report, and we are charitable enough to assume 

 that this also accounts for several little inaccuracies 

 that occur in this officer's statements. For instance, the 

 claim that a majority of the Advisory Council nomin- 

 ated an independent ticket is untrue. A majority of 

 this Council sent out the regular nominations and did 

 not omit from the list any name authorized by a ma- 

 jority of the council. The secretary's name failed to 

 receive the endorsement of the Council. The independ- 

 ent nominations had the backing of only a single mem- 

 ber of the Council who favored a new publication. 

 Again, the secretary attempts to defend the inaccurate 

 list of names sent out last year. The editor of this 

 magazine marked all corrections in the list and the 

 secretary failed to make the changes. Among those 

 wrong last year are numbers 18, 40, 42, 102 and 10S 

 of the present list. Several more incorrect addresses 

 are given in the new list, but the secretary will prob- 

 ably deny it, so we will merely, instance Nos. 

 23, 54. 120 and 135. In one of these the surname does 

 not even have the same number of syllables as the cor- 

 rect one. The secretary's report is a mixture of ex- 

 pectations, explanations, exhortations and recrimina- 

 tions but it is not a report of the Society for 1910. 

 And this, alas, is the person for whom 58 votes were 

 cast at the late election ! What every member has the 

 right to expect from the secretary is a full and unbiased 

 statement of the work of the Society for 1910. not a 

 report for part of a year, largely personal in nature 

 and it is not to the credit of the Society that we fail to 

 get it. In this connection it is pertinent to inquire by 



