The last number of this magazine--that for October 1912--will be a
comprehensive index of the publication for the past ten years. This,
with the index to the first ten volumes, will form an exceedingly
valuable index to the fern literature of America, covering, as it does,
the whole period of popular fern study. It begins some years before the
appearance of any popular fern book and has either published entire all
important articles issued since or given a summary of them. Mr. S. Fred
Prince, long a member of the Fern Society is already at work on the
index and we hope to issue it not later than the end of the year.
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Further information received from the purchaser of the complete set of
this magazine recently sent to Germany, apprises us of the fact that the
set is not to remain in Europe. It was purchased for a customer in South
America (Argentine), therefore the set owned by M. C. Belhatte at Paris
is the only one in Europe. The recent set is also the only complete set
in South America, and there are not, so far as we are aware, complete
sets in other parts of the Old World though the set at the Tokyo
Botanical Garden ought to be nearly complete and the set owned by D.
Leroy Topping at Manila lacks only two numbers.
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Next year it will be too late to get odd numbers to complete files that
lack them. When this magazine goes out of business we shall retain only
complete volumes. This is the time for all who need odd numbers to ask
for them. We have recently advertised to send any back volume later than
volume 9 for 50 cents and this offer will hold good until the end of the
year. After that time, single volumes cannot be had unless we happen to
have a surplus. We are willing to replace soiled, torn or missing
numbers free if requested to do so at once, and the fact that odd
volumes will soon be unobtainable should incline all whose sets are
incomplete to add the missing volumes while they can.