fruiting specimens of many an interesting kind which may be altogether suitable 

 to offer in the columns of The Bryologist to other members, with whom cor- 

 respondence and exchange may be thus established and carried on. The Society, 

 too, requires more material in quantity for the continuance of exchange work, 

 and such material at this time would therefore be most acceptable. 



In collecting we should be careful to gather, where possible, unmixed fer- 

 tile specimens. Those who determine mosses know how discouraging it is to 

 work out almost inextricably tangled mats. Such mixtures generally contain 

 several kinds of common mosses in various states of immaturity and ill condi- 

 tion quite unworthy of the time involved in disentangling strands and affixing 

 names to them. Of course, should the mosses be rare ones the time is well 

 spent, but, unfortunately, this is seldom the case. Do your best then, please, 

 to collect really worth-while material, clean, unmixed, and fertile. 



It is a genuine pleasure to study such specimens as those which were sent 

 a few weeks ago by Dr. Lewis Dutton, of Brandon, Vermont. Each envelope 

 contained a single species of moss in excellent condition. Among Dr. Dutton's 

 specimens were Neckera complanata, Brachythecium acutum, B. reflexum, B. 

 velutinum, Stereodon pratensis . Campylium stellatum, and Bryum Duvalii. 



Correspondence during the year with Mrs. Elizabeth M. Dunham and 

 Mrs Rachel L. Howe of Massachusetts, who are ever alert to find new things, 

 has been, as usual, of great interest and we look forward to the results of a col- 

 lecting trip to the Chocorua neighborhood of the White Mountains which they 

 made in October. Mrs. Britton, Mr. Chamberlain, Miss Deam, Mrs. J. F. 

 Merrill, and others, have also been correspondents and contributors from time 

 to time, while among our new members Dr. P. O. Schallert of Winston-Salem, 

 North Carolina, may be credited with very enthusiastic collecting indeed during 

 recent months. Dr. Schallert's boxes of Carolinian mosses contain many 

 representative mosses of his region, including Sciaromium Lescurii, with the 

 daintily bordered leaves which separate this species from other Amhlystegia, 

 and Cryphaea glomerata, the tree-loving moss so widely spread through the 

 southern United States. 



We should also acknowledge specimens contributed by P. G. M. Rhodes, dupli- 

 cates from the herbarium of Gumbel, a bryologist of some note who lived early 

 in the nineteenth century. Mr. Rhodes has recently been purchasing abroad a 

 number of notable mosses and these specimens were among them. A box of 

 mosses collected by Dr. O. E. Jennings in Florida has also been worked over 

 during 1920. 



And so, we close, again with the appeal to our members: that they go afield, 

 collect worthy material, send it to the Curator if they wish it named, and thus 

 really get in touch with the Sullivant Moss Society which needs their zealous 

 co-operation to grow and adequately fulfil its aims ! 



George B. Kaiser, Curator 

 6620 Germantown Ave., Pelham, Philadelphia, Pa. 



