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 ENLARGEMENT OF The Journal of Botany BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The rei3lies to the inquiry recently made as to the wishes of the readers of the Jouenal of Botany respecting its enlargement, and a consequent increase in price, have been numerous, and in cordial approval of the proposal. It has therefore been decided to enlarge the Journal by giving an extra 16 pages monthly, and to raise the price of each number to Is. 8d., and of the annual subscription to 16s. This means that the contents will be increased by one-half, while the charge will be raised by one-third, so that subscribers will be the gainers by the change. At times it may be desirable to substitute one or more plates for the additional pages, but the general result of the change will be that each number will contain 48 pages, instead of 32 pages as heretofore. The enlargement will give scope to various branches of botany hitherto somewhat neglected. The discontinuance of Grevillea has brought a large number of cryptogamic papers for which space can now be found; and it will be possible to bring to a speedy termination Mr. W. A. Clarke's interesting '* First Records of British Plants." In many other ways, the additional pages will result in making the Journal more useful and more interesting. The present seems a fitting opportunity for suggesting that the list of subscribers might easily be enlarged, if those who already subscribe would induce their friends to do so. There are many who, for the sake of encouraging science, would be willing to add the Journal to their list of periodicals, or who would present it to some reference library. The work of editing the Journal for sixteen years has been considerable, and financially unremunerative, and I think gives me a claim to the support of those interested in any branch of botany. JAMES BRITTEN. 18 West Square, London, S.E.