ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY 25 
It is hoped to have a field meeting of the Society at 
some point in Central New York the coming summer. 
I would suggest that members living in adjacent towns 
or states get together for one or more local field meet- 
ings; they will be quite worth while, even if only a few 
can attend. 
Our Society is intended to help those interested in 
this beautiful group of plants to get and keep in touch 
one with another and can be of most value only when 
this is accomplished. 
C. H. Bisse... 
SOUTHINGTON, CONN. 
Report of the Secretary for 1914. 
During the year, two members, Mr. George F. Cleve- 
land and Mrs. M. R. Knauff, have died, as previously 
recorded in the JournaL. Ten have resigned; under 
the new Constitution 19 have been, regretfully, dropped 
for non-payment of dues; and 23 new members have 
been received. The present membership is 227, as 
against 240 on last year’s list. The loss, however, is 
more apparent than real, since, of the 19 dropped, 12 
were already more than two years in arrears in 1913 
and would not have appeared in the list for that year 
if the present constitution had been then in force: Mak- 
ing this allowance, the Society has about held its own. 
In this connection, one point is perhaps worth men- 
tion. Some of the members who resign give as their 
reason that they have no time for fern study. The 
provision that members are expected to engage in some 
line of fern study is no longer in the constitution; and 
those who retain interest enough to wish to help fern 
study in general can do it, we believe, by continuing 
their membership and their support of the Society. 
Every dollar helps. 
