Excerpt from Grevillea, Vol. 1: A Monthly Record of Cryptogamic Botany, and Its Literature
The completion of the first volume of an English Journal, specially devoted to Cryptogamic Botany, enables us to congratulate our readers and ourselves upon the achievement of a task which many friends believed to be impossible. It is, nevertheless, an accomplished fact that "Grevillea" has reached its twelfth number, and its promoters are preparing for another year's campaign. If our subscribers and supporters will but continue their aid, this also we hope to accomplish. The complaint which some have urged, that the Journal is too scientific, will, we hope, be speedily removed, not so much by any considerable alteration in the character of the Journal, as by the assiduity of its readers themselves, whereby increased knowledge and experience will bring to its perusal minds more receptive, because better prepared. A popular journal was never intended, but one which should become valuable - nay, indispensable - to students and adepts in the branches of Botany to which it is devoted. That it has hitherto been too exclusively devoted to Fungi and Lichens is scarcely the fault of the Journal, but results from the fact that these have been less studied than the higher Cryptogamia, and more was necessary to be done to keep pace with the discovery of new species, or the better illustration of old ones. Now that the additions to British Fungi, discovered since the appearance of the "Handbook of British Fungi," have been recorded, and the descriptions furnished, there will be more of our very limited space left free for Bryologists and Algalogists to describe their additions, and also for communications less connected with systematic than physiological Botany.
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