The Genesis of the American Fern Journal: Supplementary Data

Abstract

article in the preceding number of the Fern The Genesis of the American Fern Journal, was written at Pilot Knob, New York, without benefit of correspondence or Fern Society files. Reference to these files has not disclosed any factual errors in the earlier account, but it has added considerable data from official files which seem worth recording at this time. In particular, a circular, mimeographed letter sent to all members during 1909 by Mr. Evelyn J. Winslow, President of the Society for that year, makes very explicit the problem that faced the officers of the Fern Society with respect to a possible new, Society-owned publication. letter, which follows, carries its own message. It may be noted here that Society members responded to this letter with a vote of sixty to ten in favor of a new journal. The Fern Bulletin has heretofore been furnished to mem-