EDITORIAL. 



We have the pleasure of presenting in this issue 

 MR- the latest portrait Of Mr. George Edward Daven- 



davenport port, one of the best known of living fern students. 



Mr. Davenport was born in Boston Aug. 3, 1833, 

 and early became prominent among his fellows for his papers on 

 the botany of his State. He was one of the founders of the Mid- 

 dlesex Field Club, which later developed into the Middlesex In- 

 stitute, and was for a time one of its officers. In 1S72 he joined 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and three years later 

 presented to it his collection of ferns now known as the Daven- 

 port Herbarium. In acknowledgement of this gift he was voted 

 the Appleton Gold Medal and a life membership in the Society. 

 Mr. Davenport is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences and a member of the New England Botanical Club 

 and many other scientific societies in his own and other cities. 

 Although flowering plants have claimed much of his attention, he 

 is probably best known for his work on the ferns. Among his 

 most valued contributions to this branch of the science are "A 

 Monograph of Botryehium simplex," "Vernation of Botrycliia" 

 " Aspidium spinulosum and its Varieties," Filiees Mexicance" 

 and "Fern Notes," the last two published serially in botanical 

 journals, describing and figuring many new or rare species. He 

 has also elaborated the ferns for many special publications, such 

 as the "Contributions" from the National Herharium and from 

 the Field Columbian Museum. At present he is preparing a 

 Manual of the Ferns of North America, as well as a less technical 

 work for schools. 



NOTES. 



— We note a continuance of the articles on "Ferns and Fern 

 Allies" in Nature Study. Six articles have now appeared. 



— The March number of Meehan's Monthly contains a colored 

 plate of Equisetum arvense and two pages of descriptive text. 



— The Philadelphia Record for Dec. 16, 1900, contains an enter- 

 taining article by C. F. Saunders on "A Fern Hunt in Winter." 



— In Rhodora for January Mr. G. E. Davenport describes and 

 figures a plumose form of Asplenia m ebeneiun which he names 

 HortoncB. It was found in Vermont. 



