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including Hymenostomum Breutelii (C. M.) Broth, which is 

 common on St. Thomas. The collections of this year included 

 75 specimens, representing 26 species and 19 genera of mosses, 

 including 2 new species, one a small Phascum, collected on road- 

 side banks, near Charlotte Amalia and an undescribed species of 

 Hyophila from the Island of St. Jan collected by Dr. Britton and 

 Dr. Shafer. 



Mrs. Britton also read by title, for publication in the Bulletin, 

 a report on some collections of Central American mosses sent 

 for determination from the National Museum including specimens 

 from Guatemala and Costa Rica, including also some specimens 

 from Honduras collected for the New York Botanical Garden by 

 Mr. Percy Wilson. These included 54 species representing 34 

 genera, with descriptions of a new species of Macromitrium and 

 a new genus Isodrepanium raised from subgeneric rank to include 

 two synonyms, with illustrations and specimens collected in 

 Jamaica, Central America and South America. 



Mr. Taylor gave some account of the flowering plants collected 

 by Mr. Robert Cushman Murphy on the island of South Georgia 

 in the Antarctic regions. Specimens were exhibited, and one or 

 two illustrations also, from the work of Dr. Carl Skottsberg. 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 

 NEWS ITEMS 



At the annual meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences 

 held December fifteenth, the following botanists were elected 

 fellows of the academy: Oakes Ames, R. A. Harper, Wm. Mans- 

 field, W. A. Murrill and Norman Taylor. At the same meeting 

 Dr. N. L. Britton presented the name of Sir David Prain, 

 Lieut. -Col., director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for 

 election as an honorary member of the academy. Dr. M. A. 

 Howe was elected a councilor for 1914-1916. 



Professor F. L. Stevens,- of Mayaguez, Porto Rico, has accepted 

 the position of professor of plant pathology at the University of 

 Illinois. The appointment becomes effective February i, and 

 thereafter Professor Stevens's address will be Urbana, 111. 



