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With this issue, bills are sent to all whose subscriptions have 

 expired. To guard our old subscribers from loss of numbers 

 between expiration and renewal of subscription, it is our custom 

 to send the magazine until ordered stopped. If there are any 

 who do not wish to renew, we request that they notify us at 

 once. While the editor is away from home part of the time, 

 the magazine may appear behind its usual dates, but readers 

 may be sure of receiving, as they have for the twelve years past, 

 the full number of issues for their money. 



BOOK NEWS. 



The Atlantic Slope Naturalist, which began publication about 



two, years ago, has ceased to exist. 



American Gardening, one of the oldest of American horti- 

 cultural journals, recently suspended publication. 



The American Botanist has begun the issuing of colored 

 plates, one of which now appears in every other number. 



The exact title of the ten year index is " A Complete Index to 

 Volumes I-X of The Fern Bulletin." It is sent postpaid for 25c 

 or is given free with an order for a set of the back numbers of 

 The Fern Bulletin. 



Tt is expected that a new list of the ferns and fern allies of 

 North America north of Mexico will appear early in the year, 

 recent discoveries having made all the other lists incomplete. 

 The new list will give common names, synonomy, and full and 

 careful notes on distribution. 



We have recently received from the author a copy of " A 

 Nature Wooing," which recounts in an entertaining way the 

 adventures of a naturalist during a winter in Florida. The 

 author is W. S. Blatchley, State Geologist of Indiana, and his 

 book is one that is well worth reading by all who visit the 

 Southern States in pursuit of the outdoor life. 



America is not unique in its wave of publications upon out- 

 door subjects. Our cousins across the Atlantic have even a 

 larger list to select from than we have, and the supply of new 

 works is undiminished. One of the most interesting of these is 



