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during the past twenty years, the citations given here will supplement those 

 of the important but somewhat specialized bibliographies published by Brotherus 

 (1924-1925) in Engler and Prantls' Die natilrUchen Pflanzenfamilien, by Her- 

 zog (1926) in Geographie der Moose, by Ilerzog (1925) and Lorch (1931) in 

 Linsbauer's Handbudi der Pflanzenanatomie, and by various authors in Ver- 

 doorn's (1932) Manual of Bryology. The reader is also referred to reports of 

 original research, reviews of publications, and lists of bryological papers, pub- 

 lished in the several journals devoted exclusively or in large part to bryology, 

 which will be considered first because of their broad coverage. 



Journals 



The appearance and subsequent growth of several journals devoted pri- 

 marily to bryological research demonstrates impressively the progress of the 

 field of bryology during the past century. In 1874, Husnot, the leading French 

 bryologist of his time, founded the first bryological journal, Revue Bryologique, 

 of which he continued as publisher and editor for fifty-three years, until 1926. 

 Pierre Allorge revived the Revue Bryologique in 1928 and soon enlarged its 

 scope to include papers on lichens, under the expanded title Revue Bryologique 

 et Lichenologique. After Allorge's death in 1944 (cf. Blaringhem, 1944), his 

 journal continued its existence under the able editorship of his widow, Mme. 

 Valia Allorge, reaching its twenty-first volume during 1952. With the exception 

 of the short-lived Bryologische Zeitschrift, of which the editor, Leopold Loeske, 

 published a single volume (1916-1917), no German periodical has devoted itself 

 exclusively to bryological contributions, although the eighty-one volumes of the 

 general cryptogamic journal, Hedwigia, include a great number of important 

 papers on bryophytes. In Great Britain the Moss Exchange Club, founded in 

 1896, became in 1922 the British Bryological Society. The twenty-seven An- 

 nual Reports of the Moss Exchange Club and the Annual Reports of the British 

 Bryological Society published between 1923 and 1946 contain a very consider- 

 able amount of information, especially on local distribution of bryophytes in 

 the British Isles. The Annual Reports of the Society were replaced in 1947 by 

 the Transactions of the British Bryological Society, a valuable annual publica- 

 tion with greater emphasis on the results of original research than its prede- 

 cessors. In the United States, the American Bryological Society publishes a 

 quarterly journal. The Bryologist. Founded in 1898 as the Sullivant Chapter 

 of the Agassiz Association by A. J. Grout and Elizabeth G. Britton, this organi- 

 zation became in 1899 the Sullivant Moss Society, a name retained until 1948. 

 Grout established The Bryologist in 1898, for the first two years as a depart- 

 ment of the Fern Bidletin, and thereafter as a separate and independent jour- 

 nal. With the fifty-seventh annual volume, completed in 1954, The Bryologist 

 takes its place among the oldest botanical journals in the United States. The first 

 sixteen volumes appeared under the editorship of A. J. Grout and Annie M. 

 Smith, either jointly, or with one or the other as sole editor. In 1913, with 

 Volume 17, 0. E. Jennings undertook editorial supervision of The Bryologist, 

 and served as editor-in-chief for twenty-five years. In 1938, with Volume 41, 

 the responsibility for editing and managing The Bryologist passed into the 

 hands of W. C. Steere. Two bryological journals have appeared in the Nether- 



