THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 79 
all these obscure forms, species, the newer botany had arranged 
them as sub-species, varieties and forms, under the old familiar 
species of the past. 
The editor of a so-called journal of popular botany objects to 
the publication of articles on nomenclature, and kindred topics in 
journals designed for the plant lover upon the ground that they 
"must be quite incomprehensible to many of its readers." In this 
we believe he is mistaken. Our experience has been that any be- 
ginner with energy and persistence sufficient to master the identi- 
fication of plants, is quite intelligent enough to comprehend any 
article on the names of plants, that may be set before him, provid- 
ed, of course, it is written in language intelligible to educated per- 
sons. 
BOOKS AND WRITERS 
'The Fern Collector's Guide" is the title of a forthcoming book- 
let by Wlllard X. Clute which will be issued by the F. A. Stokes 
Co., New York. 
With the June number, Nature Study, Manchester, N. H., be- 
gins its third volume. The magazine has won a deserved success 
and its increase in size is likely to add to its popularity. 
The late Thomas ^leehan, although a prolific writer, published 
but one book. His scientific papers and letters, however, are be- 
ing arranged for publication by his son, the present editor of 
Meehans Monthly. They will be awaited with interest by all 
familiar with ^Ir. ^leehan's original and practical views upon 
botanical subjects. 
— A. W. ^lumford, of Chicago, the publisher of Birds and 
Nature, has begun the publication of a series of photographs of 
forest trees that will appeal as strongly to the student of trees as 
Huntington's "Studies of Trees in Winter'' do, though in a dif- 
ferent way. ^lumford's tree pictures are of the forest trees in 
full leaf and were made by an expert photographer from repre- 
sentative specimens. Besides a photograph of an entire tree, 
