30 AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
his friends to join the Society; for we must all coéperate 
to increase the membership. The Secretary is very 
grateful to his predecessor, Mr. Weatherby, for his 
uniform courtesy and kindness on many occasions. 
S. H. Burnuam, Secretary 
Report of the Curator for 1919 
For the past year the work of the curator has been 
largely of a routine nature, consisting for the most 
part in mounting and cataloguing additional material. 
275 sheets have been mounted from the collection of 
specimens from the Philippines and British North 
Borneo mentioned in as a previous report having been 
contributed by Mr. D. LeRoy Topping; Dr. 
Jennings has contributed 37 additional sheets from 
his Ontario collections; Mr. C. A. Weatherby has 
donated 15 sheets; J. B. Flett, 18; J. C. Nelson, 1; 
L. 8. Hopkins, 10; and Geo. L. Moxley, 24—a total of 
380 sheets. The contributions just named have all 
been mounted and incorporated into the herbarium 
which now numbers 3381 mounted sheets with prob- 
ably 200 additional sheets of unidentified specimens 
which are as yet unmounted. 
Mr. Topping’s collection was especially noteworthy 
in that it contained cotypes of 11 species as follows: 
Nephrolepis marginalis Copel., Mesochlaena Toppingit 
Copel., Dryopteris Kinabauensis Copel., Dryopteris litho- 
phylla Copel., Dryopteris Toppingii Copel., Cyathea 
megalosora Copel., Cyathea rigida Copel., Cyathea Top- 
pingit Copel., Polypodium multisorum Copel., Poly- 
podium albidopaleatum Copel., and Polypodium brachy- 
podium Copel. 
Preparation of the Ms. for a new catalogue of the 
herbarium is progressing slowly as attention ean be 
