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serve as president during the past year, and Mr. George B. 
Kaiser as secretary of the Society has assisted me in the 
determination of collections sent in by members. 
Our correspondents in Cuba, Jamaica, England, and 
France, have continued to send us specimens, and those of 
Brother Leon and Mr. Harris have proven to be of great 
interest. Mr. Dixon has examined and compared at Kew 
and the British Museum many of the unnamed specimens 
of exotic mosses from the Mitten Herbarium, and we are 
holding for future description by him a number of new 
species with manuscript names. During the year we have 
received one set of Dr. Grout’s ‘Musci Pleurocarpi,” and 
a copy of his “Moss Flora of N. Y. City and Vicinity,” 
many of the local records of which are based on the col- 
lections here at the Garden. We have also received a set 
of Prof. Holzinger’s Exsiccatae of Acrocarpous mosses. 
During the summer, we have been asked to furnish infor- 
mation on peat mosses to be used for surgical dressings 
and have referred critical questions of determination to 
Dr. A. LeRoy Andrews, of Cornell University, who con- 
tinues his cooperation and studies for North American 
Flora. The manuscript for the mosses of the “Flora of 
Bermuda” has been prepared, and I have made some 
progress in descriptions of the genus Fissidens for North 
American Flora. 
Acting as secretary for the “Stokes Fund,” I have con- 
tributed two short articles on “Our Parks” for publication 
in the journals of Edgar Allen Poe and the Gary schools 
(P. S. 45 and 46, The Bronx). I have also published in the 
May number of the American Museum Journal an article 
on the “Conservation of Wild Flowers,’ illustrated by 
photographs by Miss Dickerson, and “A Schedule for 
Arbor Day Compositions on Conservation” in the Nature 
Study Review for April. During the spring I visited about 
twenty of the local garden clubs and schools, giving a 
lecture on “Botanizing with a Camera,”’ illustrated by 
lantern slides of the rare and beautiful, as well as some of 
