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CHAPTER NOTES. 



Our President has been suffering from ill health since an attack of grip 

 in the winter, and by advice of his physician has taken a trip to Europe, 

 hoping that the rest and change will restore him to his former good health. 

 Our good wishes go with him, and we earnestly hope he may receive all the 

 benefits hoped for from the trip. Before leaving he prepared manuscript 

 for a popular monograph of the TInidiutns, which will be published, with 

 copious illustrations, in the October Bryologist. A. J. G. 



Rev. W. W. Watts, Ballina, New South Wales, has sent a second pack- 

 age of eighty of the rarer Australian mosses, with several new species. 

 These mosses are worth double the pr.ce asked (see October, 1900, Bryolo- 

 gist), each specimen containing plants in various stages of development where 

 this is desirable, all with such complete data and withal so nicely set up, 

 that it is a joy to handle them. — A. J/. S. 



Glycerine jelly as frequently purchased is too thin to make good keeping 

 slides. It should be placed, uncorked, on the back part of a stove for several 

 days till it has evaporated suiliciently to be quite hard when cooled. Then if 

 care is taken not to place thick and thin sections on the same slide and just 

 the right amount of jelly used, let the cover sink slowly by its own weight 

 into place and do not use pins or clips or pressure of any kind, but place 

 where the slides will harden and when thoroughly dried they will be found 

 less likely to bubble than when dried under pressure. ^y:/. M. S. 



We would earnestly request members to be more particular in preparing 

 their material to send in for identification. The following remarks apply to 

 specimens sent Mrs. Harris and Mr. Barbour as well as the Secretary. To 

 begin with, as a rule collect only well developed fruiting plants in good con- 

 dition or in small stages where this is necessary to a satisfactory determina- 

 tion, and also collect enough of each kind to make use of after it is worked out. 

 Then send, if possible, two good-sized specimens of each .supposed .species. 

 If only one can be spared, or it is desired to have this one returned, mark this 

 fact plainly on the packet. The following si.x items can be written on either 

 a slip of paper or a label and .slipped inside the wra])per or envelope, which 

 is understood to be a temporary one. Do not paste the label on, unless you 

 are sure the moss will not have to be transferred after sending through the 

 mail. First, mark on each packet its name, if known, or any guess you 

 may have. Second, state on what the moss, hepatic or lichen grew. Third, 

 the locality of collection. Fourth, date of collection. Fifth, by whom col- 

 lected. Then the one who makes the determination or verifies it will add as 

 sixth his name, and thus make a valuable herbarium specimenout of what 

 should otherwise be put in the fire. 



The members should by this time have these rules fixed in mind and 

 hereafter material sent in without all the above data will be returned to 

 the sender without being named. — A. M. S. 



