EDITORIAL. 



It is a rare, perhaps an unprecedented thing for 

 THE NEW a journal devoted to a single family of plants, to 



VOLUME continue uninterrupted publication for a decade. 



The Fern Bulletin, however, has nearly reached 

 this distinction and in honor of the event, the tenth volume, 

 which begins with the next number, will be something quite out 

 of the ordinary. In the first place, the number of pages will be 

 increased one-third in order to accommodate the vast and ever 

 increasing amount of original notes on ferns. In the past year 

 we have frequently been obliged to disappoint both contributors 

 and readers by withholding valuable articles for want of room. 

 With these extra pages we now hope to keep up with the subject. 

 The series of portraits of people prominent in fern study will be 

 continued and a new department added in which will be given 

 an index to all current literature relating to ferns. These things, 

 however, are all in the line of expected improvements. For this 

 special volume we are preparing things of still greater interest 

 which will be announced in good time. Suffice to say now 

 that nearly every fern student of prominence in the entire world 

 will contribute to it. 



The advancing of the price of this journal to 

 THE NEW seventy-five cents a year is only tentative. If it is 



PRICE found that fern students prefer a smaller number 



of pages at fifty cents, the increased price and 

 size will be abandoned after a year's trial, but the volume for 

 1902 will cost seventy- five cents and, we are convinced, will be 

 worth it to every student of ferns in America. We hope that 

 none of our subscribers will feel that the advanced cost renders 

 them unable to receive it longer. With this issue we mail a bill 

 for subscription to all who are not paid in advance for 1902, and 

 respectfully call attention to the note relative to the payment of 

 such subscriptions accompanying it. 



