oy 
The cost of printing and mailing each four-page number, with 
an edition of one thousand copies, amounts to a little over fifteen 
dollars, or a total of $645 for forty-three weekly editions for 
ten months of the year. This is a severe drain on the present 
limited resources of the Garden. 
The Leaflets may not only be made of very great value to 
teachers of nature study and botany in local schools, but may 
also become one of the most effective ways of interesting an 
increasingly large number of persons in the study of plants, and 
in the work of the Botanic Garden. ‘Their scope and popularity 
could be greatly increased by the addition of a few simple illus- 
trations. An unusual opportunity is here afforded for some one 
interested in promoting the study and love of plant life to endow 
this publication. A fund is needed sufficient to afford an annual 
income of from seven hundred to one thousand dollars. 
SUPE IVAN WMOss. SOC In YSN Ewb ELE 
MEETING 
The ninth public meeting of the Sullivant Moss Society 
was held on May 24 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the 
Central Museum. ‘The sessions were held in the library and 
auditorium of the Central Museum building, with the president 
of the society, Dr. Alexander W. Evans, in the chair. Dr. Abel 
J. Grout exhibited several colored lantern slides of mosses and 
hepatics, after which the following papers were presented: 
“First supplement to the Sullivant Moss Society exchange 
list of Hepaticae found in the United States and Canada” ; 
Miss Caroline Coventry Haynes. 
“New and interesting lichens from the State of Washing- 
ton, collected by Mr. A. S. Foster”; Mr. G. K. Merrill. 
“Notes on Hepaticae from Maine: a comparison with the 
Sarekgebirge”; Miss Annie Lorenz. Read by Dr. Edward 
B. Chamberlain. 
“Notes on the mosses of Western Pennsylvania”; Dr. Otto 
FE. Jennings. Read by Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith. 
“The Hepaticae of Isle Royale’; Dr. George Hall Conklin. 
Read by title. 


