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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
upon its subject matter. The back numbers of many maga- 
zines are as readable as the current issues. This we beh'eve 
to be the case with The American Botanist. Every 
number of the ten volumes issued is different from the rest, 
and if you like the present one, you will find the others well 
worth purchasing. The stock of some volumes is becoming 
very small — there are less than two hundred sets of volume 
III remaining — and a full set is not likely to be available 
much longer. If you do not feel like ordering a full set, 
ask your nearest library to do so. In this way you can al- 
ways have the magazine near for reference without expense 
to yourself. 
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This winter we expect to dispose of all our odd back 
numbers as sample copies and for the last time we offer to 
send free any numbers that may be missing from the files 
of our subscribers. We are anxious that everyone should 
have complete volumes. Look up your missing numbers 
at once. Next month it will be too late. 
BOOKS AND WRITERS. 
The New York State Library has compiled a list of the 
best books issued in 1905 for the convenience of other 
libraries. In this list the editor's "Fern Allies of 
North America" has been given a place — one of the few 
scientific books so listed. 
Among recently issued books of interest to botanists 
may be mentioned Wythes and Roberts' "Book of Rarer 
Vegetables", Slosson's "How Ferns Grow", Henshaw's 
"Mountain Wildflowers of America", Shelton's "The Sea- 
sons in a Flower Garden", and Knuth's "Handbook of 
Flower Pollination". Several of these will be reviewed in 
subsequent issues of this magazine. 
