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ANNUAL REPORTS— SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY— 1919 



Report of the President 



Reprints and letters from our friends abroad indicate that some of them,, 

 at least, have found leisure and peace of mind sufficient to enable them to renew 

 or continue their bryological studies. Dr. Brotherus has escaped the serious 

 disturbances in Finland, and has issued three reprints in English, from specimens 

 contributed by the Rev. W. W. Watts, on the mosses of the New Hebrides, 

 some new species of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, and the mosses of 

 North Queensland, having also described a new species Anoectangium incrassatum 

 Broth, from Jamaica collected by F. Borgesen. The fifth contribution to the 

 Bryological Flora of the Philippine Islands has also been issued with eighteen 

 new species. 



H. N. Dixon has reprinted the mosses of the Australian Arctic Expedition 

 of 1911-1914 and continued his "Miscellanea Bryologica" (VI) with notes on 

 Chaetomitrium Deplanchei and its allies, including one new species of Semato- 

 phyllum. M. Theriot has issued separates of the Mosses of New Caledonia 

 (1914), a contribution to the bryological flora of Chili (1918) with descriptions 

 and illustrations of six new species and the mosses of Annam with figures of 

 seven species. M. R. Potier de la Varde has also contributed seven new species 

 with illustrations to the flora of Annam. His drawings show a simplicity and 

 clearness which are pleasing. He also contributes descriptions of some mosses 

 from Natal and E. China, describing and figuring some species of Brotherus 

 and Paris which have only been known by ms. names. M. Jules Amann, assisted 

 by O. Mylan and P. Culmann, has continued his studies of the Flora of Switzer- 

 land, by issuing the first part of the "Flora des mousses de la Suisse." 



Owing to the printers' strikes last summer and the greatly increased cost 

 of publication, the Bryologist has fallen behind and is somewhat less than its 

 usual size, but as the unsettled labor conditions readjust themselves we hope 

 that it will be possible to maintain our usual size and schedule, and that the 

 work of the members of the Society will continue to set as high a standard of 

 accuracy as it has in the past. 



Mr. Kaiser has taken care of the moss-herbarium. Dr. Evans and Miss ' 

 Lorenz have continued their studies of New England Hepatics, and Mt. Desert 

 has yielded some interesting species. Miss Haynes has devoted her time and 

 studies to the Hepatic collections and Mr. Plitt to the Lichens. Mr. Rapp 

 continues to collect mosses in Florida and the status of Fissidens Donnellii Aust. 

 has at last been settled by his finding of good fruiting specimens! He has also 

 recently distributed an interesting set of lichens, including some new species 

 named by Mr. Merrill. Mr. Williams has been devoting much time to lichens 

 during the war, but has had occasion to study several South American collections 

 from the National Museum and a set of Arctic mosses from the Geological Sur- 

 vey of Canada. I have continued my West Indian work besides answering^ 

 numerous letters and naming specimens for various members of the Club. 



