THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
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offer if their renewals are sent before the October number 
appears. 
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We again call attention to our offer of a year's subscrip- 
tion for each illustrated article that can be used as a leader. 
The illustrations may be line, wash or photographs, but 
should be made with reference to our requirements for 
frontispieces. No restrictions are placed upon the number 
of articles submitted by one person. Nor need the writers 
be subscribers to the magazine. A year's subscription goes 
with each article accepted. 
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This magazine is also looking about for an associate 
editor. Someone who can write acceptable paragraphs for 
the Note and Comment department is needed. One of the 
reasons why readers have expressed a preference for this 
department is doubtless the fact that every paragraph rep- 
resents the material from which an article of several pages 
might be made; in fact many of the paragraphs are con- 
densed from such articles. There is not, however, an in- 
exhaustible supply of these articles, as any reader of botan- 
ical publications must have discovered. One who can 
constantly produce available paragraphs will be somewhat 
difficult to find, we fear. There is now no special reason 
why this magazine should not make another increase in 
the number of pages except that sufficient articles of the 
right kind are difficult to obtain. If we were willing to 
print anything about plants the task would be easy enough, 
but we want only the best. 
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Since the beginning of this magazine we have printed 
a goodly number of extra copies of each issue for the ex- 
press purpose of completing the files of those who are now 
subscribing, and may desire full sets. Whether the back 
numbers of a magazine are valuable or not depends entirely 
