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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. 
The articles, which are of great value to students of 
botany, are painstakingly scientific in their text and yet 
are not couched in phraseology intended to baffle the 
amateur. Articles dealing with field explorations and 
researches of our avid member-collectors are always a 
keen delight to those whose explorations are confined 
to the limits of a garden wall or a window sill. 
With permission of the Carnegie Institute of Wash- 
ington, the Society completed the reprint of the 1200 
page monograph, THE CacTaceag, by N. L. Britton 
and J. N. Rose. These four volumes, the studies for 
which began in 1904 and which were published in 
1919 under a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, are 
the outstanding authoritative work of their kind and 
the basis of nomenclature in America and many foreign 
lands. Other books on succulents are in the course of 
production. 
One of the outstanding contributions was the in- 
stallment printing of an illustrated, pronouncing 
glossary of terms used in cactus and succulent descrip- 
tions. From the pictures of theyplants themselves and 
graphic explanation of details, every cactus enthusiast 
can learn about his plants and understand the books 
and articles written about them. 
These free supplements can be removed from the 
JOURNAL and can be bound into separate, priceless 
volumes. 
During the year, the JOURNAL expects to use colored 
illustrations 1n order to keep pace with the world-wide 
interest in these plants. 
_ Correspondence is invited and the many letters 
testify to the responsiveness of the members to the 
editorial plan and to the Society’s aims. 
The interest in cacti is increasing each year as is 
shown by the 200,000 books that have been sold 
through the JOURNAL in the last decade. 
