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UNDER the title “Notes Ptéridologiques”1 Prince Roland Bonaparte is issuing at irregular intervals fascicles of a publication dealing primarily with the fern collections in his private herbarium in Paris. The herbarium already contains about 300,000 specimens coming from all parts of the world. These have been derived partly by purchase or exchange from public or private herbaria or from individuals, and partly from Prince Bonaparte's own correspondents or from collectors and travellers with whom he is in touch. Thus many of the collections are represented in other herbaria, and the publication of the names of specimens which have hitherto been undetermined will be of service to other workers in the field of pteridology, while a systematic account of new collections will add to our knowledge of the ferns and of their geographical distribution. Prince Bonaparte is also pleased to receive on loan collections for determination, and will publish lists of the species.
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Fern Notes from Prince Bonaparte's Herbarium . Nature 102, 54–55 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102054b0
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