—iig- 

 well as the towers are all composed of Carrara marble. The 

 cathedral stands in the central part of the city of 500,000 inhabi- 

 tants, and the highest point at which I observed the fern was 

 about 270 feet. — /. Schneck, Mt. Carmel, III. 



OWNERS OF COMPLETE FILES. 



When we suggested, in the July number, that it would be 

 interesting to know who possesses full files of The Fern 

 Bulletin, we had no idea that the number was so small. 

 Doubtless there are several others yet to be heard from, but the 

 list at present is as follows : 



Libraries: Boston Public Library, Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, Columbia University, Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 



Private Owners : Prof. T. J. Fitzpatrick, Iowa City, la. ; 

 O. M. Oleson, Fort Dodge, Iowa; James A. Graves, Susque- 

 hanna, Pa. ; Mrs. M. L. Stevens, Brookline, Mass. ; John H. 

 Sage, Portland, Conn.; Miss H. D. Hutchinson, Mattapan, Mass. 

 The editor has two copies. 



Since full files are becoming so rare, it is desirable that the 

 whereabouts of every one be known. If any other reader has 

 such a file, we trust they will inform us of it. A postal card 

 will be sufficient. 



CURRENT LITERATURE RELATING TO FOREIGN 

 FERNS. 



Contributed by Aug. H. Hahne. 



Bolus, H., & A. H. Wolley-Dod, Ferns of the Cape Peninsula. 

 Trans. South African Phil. Soc, XIV (1903), pp. 363-5. 



Barbas, V. v., Aspidium thelypteris var. brachytomum Barb. var. 

 nov. Magyar Botan. Lapok, II (1903), p. 256. 



Chauveaud, G., Recherches sur le mode de formation des 

 tubes criblces dans la racine des Cryptogames Vasculaires 

 et des Gymnosperms. (Researches on the mode of for- 

 mation of sieve tubes in the root of the Vascular Crypt, a. 

 Gymnosperms). Ann. Sci. Nat. XVIII (1903), ser. 8, pp. 

 165-279. 



