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tion of Arts and Sciences at a meeting held on Thursday, January 
8, 1914: 
Resolved: That the Executive Committee of the Board of 
Trustees, of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 
has learned with gratification of the designation of Dr. Arthur 
Hollick as Honorary Curator of the Collection of Fossil Plants 
in the museum of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Resolved: That this Committee, on behalf of the Board of 
Trustees, hereby records its approval of said designation. 
CONFERENCE NOTES 
The December conference of the scientific staff and students of 
the New York Botanical Garden was held in the laboratory of the 
museum building on the afternoon of December 3. Summaries 
of the subjects presented are here given as follows: 
Philippine Mosses, by Mr. R. S. WILLIAMS. 
The Philippine islands extend from about 514° to 1814° north 
latitude, a distance of about 900 miles, and contain mountain 
ranges and peaks rising to an elevation of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, 
so that considerable variation in temperat frosts being 
not unknown in some of the northern mountains. 
Previous to the American occupation not much attention had 
been given to the moss flora. mong the first to collect these 
plants to any extent, I believe, was an Englishman, Hugh Cum- 
mings, who lived on the islands from 1836-40 and quite a number 
of his plants are in the Garden herbarium. At about this same 
time, the Wilkes Expedition, on its trip around the world, 1838- 
42, touched at both the northern and southern islands but only 
Considerably later on, 1870-71, G. Wallis spent some time on 
