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With regret we note the death of Thomas Meehan, senior 

 editor of Meehan's Monthly, which occurred at Germantown, Pa., 

 November 19, 1901. A biographical sketch with portrait was 

 printed in the October Bulletin. 



It must be a source of satisfaction to every member of the 

 Fern Chapter to know that it is accounting for itself satisfactorily. 

 The work it has done and is doing to stimulate a popular interest 

 in ferns has recently been commented upon very kindly by Prof. 

 C. E. Bessey in Science, and by the editor of the Plant World in 

 that journal. It is also a matter for congratulation that each year 

 since the Chapter's organization the membership has constantly 

 increased. 



BOOK NEWS. 



To those who are interested in poetry relating to flowers, we 

 take pleasure in recommending "Among Flowers and Trees 

 With the Poets,"* by Wait and Leonard. This volume is a com- 

 pilation from many sources and is especially strong in quotations 

 from recent or contemporaneous writers. The minor poets, who, 

 by the way, are not always producers of work in a minor key, are 

 well represented. No longer do the poets rave of the lily and 

 lose. In this book are many entire poems to such plants as 

 arethusa, bitter-sweet, rudbeckia, bloodroot, burdock and even 

 the lowly chickweed. It is a good book to have on the library 

 shelf. Many an hour may be profitably spent in browsing 

 through its pages. 



The third of a series of botanical works in which author and 

 artist have joined forces has recently been issued by the F. A. 

 Stokes Co. It is entitled "Southern Wildflowers and Trees,"t 

 and is the first book to treat of the noticeable plants of the South 

 in untechnical language. The book follows the Engler-Prantl ar- 



* Among Flowers and Trees with the Poets, compiled by Minnie Curtis 

 Wait and Merton Channing Leonard. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1901; 8vo. 

 pp. 415. 



fSouthern Wildflowers and Trees, by Alice Lounsberry, illustrated by 

 Mrs. Ellis Rowan. N. Y. : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1901. 8vo. pp 565; 

 $3-65 net. 



