Most people are inclined to take offense if the ptiblish- 

 er, unless told to do so^ stops their magazine. at the expi- 

 ration of the time paid for. It often happens that those 

 who wish to continue are too hxxsj at the moment to at- 

 tend to renewals and to stop their copy is to make a break 

 in their files which inconveniences them^ later, when their 

 renewal is sent in. For this reason we have adopted the 

 policy of sending The American Botanist until notified 

 to discontinue. Those whose subscriptions have expired 

 will find a bill in this issue and if they do not wish to con- 

 tinue we should be notified at once. Acknowledgement of 

 the receipt of all such notices w411 be made. It is hoped ^ 

 however, in view of the very liberal terms of subscription 

 and the improvements constantly being made in the mag- 

 azine, that orders to discontinue will be, as in the past, ex- 

 ceedingly few and far between. 



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It is with much pleasure that we make the announce- 

 ment that this journal is to be enlarged again. For the 

 present, every alternate number will contain four extra 

 pages and it is expected that at the end of the new volume 

 every number will be thus increased. This is the third 

 time the journal has been enlarged in the two years of its 

 existence and we trust our subscribers will show their ap- 

 preciation of the fact by trying to induce others to sub- 

 scribe. More pages will be added as soon as our subscrip- 

 tion list warrants it. 



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It is interesting to note that a majority of our sub- 

 scribers have complete files of this magazine, those who 

 did not begin at the beginning having ordered them later. 

 Back numbers of a daily paper are of comparatively small 

 value, for its contents become stale in a very short time ; 

 but with The American Botanist time only increases its 

 value. Such articles as ''The Origin of Species by Muta- 



