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Voted, That a committee be appointed to consider reso- 

 lutions of thanks, and that these resolutions be spread upon 

 the records. 



The President appointed Mr. A. H. Norton, Mr. Ralph 

 C. Bean, and Miss L. H. Coburn as members of this com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Chamberlain spoke of the necessity of having actual 

 specimens of plants upon which to establish records for dis- 

 tribution, and urged that specimens be deposited by members 

 of the Society in the herbarium of the Portland Society of 

 Natural History. He spoke especially of the need of speci- 

 mens of the common plants, and urged all to make this dis- 

 posal of their duplicates. Discussion followed. 



On motion of Prof. Lee, 



Voted, That the curator of the Portland Society of Nat- 

 ural History be requested to report at the next meeting of 

 the Society the number of specimens received in accordance 

 with this recommendation. 



The President then read a short paper, giving a list of 

 the ferns and fern allies that had been collected or observed 

 on the trips. The ferns numbered twenty-seven species, and 

 the allies nine species. 



Adjourned, sine die. 



A. H. Norton, 



Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BRYOPHYTES, 



1907. 



During the past year some progress has been made 

 towards a better understanding of the geographic distribution 

 of certain groups of mosses, though not to the extent that the 

 committee could wish. Nearly a year ago the chairman pub- 

 lished in Rhodora a list of the species of the Buxbaumiacece, 

 Georgiacecz and PolytrichacccE which were known to occur in 

 New England. Of the twenty-five species and varieties there 

 enumerated, nineteen occur in Maine. Since the publication 

 of this list, three other species of these three families have 



