THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



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were willing to run technical matter, we would never have any 

 difficulty in filling the magazine and issuing it on time, but we 

 know what would happen to our subscription list if we used 

 that kind of material. So far as we know, this is the only 

 magazine in the world devoted to popular ecology, and this, 

 while by far the most interesting phase of botany, is still sO' new 

 as a science that writers and investigators are few. Our readers 

 are therefore invited to send us any notes or articles they may 

 happen to produce along the lines in which the magazine is 

 interested. Our readers are for the most part philosophical 

 botanists interested more in plants as living things than in mak- 

 ing collections of dried plants or in learning the names of addi- 

 tional species. We are personally acquainted with a large 

 number of these readers and do not know one who is not above 

 the average of the intelligence and culture in his community. 

 It is in this eminent company that our new readers find them- 

 selves, and we trust they will join them in making this their 

 magazine truly representative of the phase of botany to which 

 it is devoted. 



At this season, when a large number of renewals are com- 

 ing in, we again direct attention to our ''Permanent" list. A 

 ''permanent" subscriber does not mean one who expects to be a 

 subscriber forever, but it does mean one who is enough inter- 

 ested in the magazine at present to wish it to continue coming 

 to him and backs up his wish with an order to that effect. 

 Though "permanent" subscribers pay but 75 cents a year for 

 the magazine, and pay during the year when it is most con- 

 venient, the magazine is advanced by having a body of sustain- 

 ing subscribers who dp not have to be annually induced to 

 renew. A very large number of our subscribers belong- to this 

 class. Anybody may become a permanent subscriber by paying 

 for two years in advance at the special rate of $1.50 and direct- 

 ing the magazine to be sent thereafter until ordered stopped. 



