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INTRODUCTORY 
The field of the American Journal of Botany must be as wide as 
the whole science, for it is to serve the interests of organizations whose 
members come from all quarters. 
The American Journal of Botany is not blinded as to the bene- 
fit it is to bring to its science. It realizes that its five hundred to six 
hundred pages will afford but temporary relief for the ever-increasing 
congestion. It is to be hoped that the same organizations which 
have enabled long cherished plans to be brought to fruition in the 
establishment of this journal may be able to find the means from time 
to time to increase their capacity for publication, and thus to aid in 
offering to botanical research in America facilities proportionate to 
those enjoyed in Europe. 
F. C. Newcombe. 
