﻿518 Proceedings of the Club 



vicinity of Cuzco and the tributaries of the Madre de Dios, and 

 are mostly forest species, including showy Phyllogoniums and 

 Poro trie hums and various species of Entodon and RJiizogonium. 

 The collection promises to be very interesting and will be com- 

 pared with Dr. Rusby's collections of 1885, and M. Germain's, 

 both of which have recently been enumerated and described by 

 Dr. C. Muller in his Prodromus of the Mosses of Bolivia in the 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano for 1897. 



Tuesday Evening, May 10, 1898. 



There were fifteen persons present. 



President Brown was in the chair. 



One new nomination for membership was reported : Miss M. 



Davidson, 350 West Fifty-first street, nominated by Mr. W. A. 

 Bastedo. 



Four new members were elected : Miss Harriet B. Bailey, 78 

 West 105th street; Mrs. A. B. Tweedy, 353 West Boulevard; 

 Mr. Joseph H. Wade, Principal Grammar School 23, Mulberry 

 and Bayard streets, and Dr. John B. Conroy, Public School 39, 

 235 East 125th street. 



The first paper, by Dr. Arthur Hollick and Mrs. Elizabeth G. 

 Britton, was entitled " A Description of a new Fossil Moss from 

 the State of Washington, collected by Prof. I. C. Russell. 

 The paper was read by Dr. Hollick, who also exhibited the orig- 

 inal specimen, one sent to Mrs. Britton for identification by Prof. 

 F. H. Knowlton of the National Museum in Washington. 

 Prof. Knowlton supplied the following facts : " The specimen 



collected by Prof. I. C. Russell in July, 1897, near Cle 

 El urn, Kittitass, county, Washington, and occurs in the Roslyn 

 sandstone ; its age is probably lower Miocene or upper Eocene. 

 It is associated with species of Lygodiitm, Ulmus, Plcwera, and a 

 number of other beautifully preserved leaves. It is in any case 

 the oldest undoubted moss thus far found in this country. The 



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little doubt a 



Lycopodinmy The specimen represents only the tip of a branch, 

 about one-half inch in length ; it is sterile and has been compared 

 with figures and descriptions of other fossil American mosses, and 



