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Mrs. Britton. Mr. Chamberlain reports "an interesting find of 

 Amblystegium Lescurii in a woodland brook, Bristo', Maine, and 

 Brachythecium rutabulum under my window." Please note the 

 last three words and let them emphazise the opportunities we each 

 possess. Mr. Walter Greenalch reports a list of 95 species already 

 determined, including many rare species, among others a Timmia. 

 Mr. Huntington has made many interesting discoveries of mosses 

 not before reported in his locality. They have been given in The 

 Bryologist. Miss Mary E. Hart, of Western College, Oxford, 

 Ohio, sends us the following notes on the Dicranums of that State: 

 In the "Catalogue of Ohio Plants," published in the Geological 

 Survey, \'ol. 7, part 2, the following mosses with others are cata- 

 logued with localities: D.fulvum, D. fuscescens and D. Montanum. 

 Leo Lesciuereu.x and H. C. Beardslee catalogue the following as 

 from Ohio: D. undulatum, D. spurium and D. Schrader (D. Bergeri). 

 Miss Hart has sent us specimens of D. undulatum from Gambier, O. 

 Mrs. Josephine D. Lowe has devoted her energies to organizing a 

 band of workers wherever she has been. The Philadelphia Moss 

 Chapter was started with four members, and they devoted their 

 time to collecting local mosses and adding to the herbarium of the 

 Botanical .Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences. When Mrs. 

 Lowe mo\ed to Hartford she began to interest others in study, and 

 another section of our Chapter will be the result. The work of our 

 President Dr. Grout, is known to all as far as that contained in 

 The Bkvologist. More technical articles have appeared in Rho- 

 dora. Revue Bryologique and the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club. He is now giving a course on the Pleurocarpous mosses before 

 the Botanical Department of the Brooklyn Institute, and in this 

 connection has added several species to the flora of Long Island, 

 the last being Plagiothecium denticulatum forma propagulifera 

 Ruth. Space forbids particularizing the work of Miss Bailey, Mrs. 

 Lamprey, Miss Warner, Mr. Barbour, Miss Clarke, Mr. Dodge 

 and Mr. Stultz. I can only add a word urging more frequent 

 communications regarding the study of the hour while the moss 

 under consideration is fresh in mind. A brief note in The Bryolo- 

 gist not only adds to its interest, but serves to keep in touch one 

 with another. 



Don't forget that membership fees are due Jan. ist, 1900. 

 Please remit promptly and save delays. Note the announcement 

 on second page of the cover. 



Annie Morrill Smith, Secretary. 



