THE SULLIVANT MOSS CHAPTER, 



President's Report. 



The President's report is almost a su|)erfluity, since the Sec- 

 retary's report is so full and inspiring. Yet there are one or two 

 things to which the President wishes to call the attention of the 

 Chapter. The membership has become so large and the requests 

 for assistance in the identification of mosses so numerous that the 

 President would ha\'e been utterK' o\erwhelmed h,id not Mrs. 

 Smith kindly undertaken to do the bulk of the work. Some mem- 

 bers ha\'e seemed to feel that Mrs. Smith's identifications were 

 not as \aluable as those of better known moss students. Mrs. 

 Smith has as good judgement and as complete a library on mosses 

 as any other private individual in New York City, and all doubtful 

 specimens are referred by her to specialists. \'et because of her 

 willingness she is threatened with overwork. If our members would 

 enclose with each specimen a carefully prepared glycerine jelly 

 slide with leaves and capsule mounted therein, they wouki greatly 

 assist Mrs. Smith and indirectlv assist others. 



Secretary's Report. 



It is with pleasure I present the first annual report of the 

 .Sulli\ant Moss Chapter, which was organized January ist, 1899, 

 with a charter membership of 29 Active and 5 Associates. We 

 ha\e now 5r Acti\e and 7 Associates, making a total of 58 members. 

 During the year letters have been exchanged with almost e\er\- 

 member, starting beginners with named sets of mosses and in- 

 structions for stu(h', identifying mosses for those interested in 

 field work, as well as those making microscopical studies, in 

 each case mica slides have been made and filed with the sjiecimen 

 so that the\- can be easily referred to if needed, in response to 

 the re(|uest for reports of personal wf)rk done this year, we have 

 heard from fifteen members. Mrs. Anthony has been working on 

 Orthotricums and Hypnums, and has also found the haunts of 

 se\'eral of the rarer mosses, Buxbanmia aphylla. etc. Mrs. Britton's 

 vs'ork is too vast and t(M) well known to need comment, but her 

 time and knowledge so fully placed at the service of our members 

 requires a word of grateful appreciation. Mr. Collins has made 

 collections and published results in The Bryoloc.ist, Rhodora 

 and in "Botanizing," a work recently issued. He has also made 

 illustrations in Rhodora for Grimmia Evansii, newly described by 



