VOLUME XX 



NUMBER 1 



JANUARY, 1917 



1 BRY0L0G18T 



JOURNAL OF THE 



SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY Z^^^^^^""'*' 



Conducted and Published for the Society by f k«i r"f r-v 



O. E. JENNINGS, Pk.D., Editor-in-Chief r ho 1 () 



Associate Editors 0 Q^j 



ABEL JOEL GROUT, Ph.D. ^ 

 GEORGE N. BEST, M.D. JOHN M. HOLZINGER. M.S. 



ALEXANDER W. EVANS, Ph.D. LINCOLN W. RIDDLE, Ph.D. 



and the 



Advisory Board Officers of the Society 



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CONTENTS 



The Early History of the Bryologist and the Sullivant Moss 



Society Annie Morrill Smith i 



A Fossil Camptothecium A. J. Grout g 



Annual Reports — Sullivant Moss Society — 1916 



Report of the President 'Elizabeth G. Britton g 

 Report of the Secretary-Treasurer 



Edward B. Chamberlain jo 



Report of Election of Officers Elizabeth M. Dunham 12 

 Report, Curator of the Moss Herbarium 



George B. Kaiser 12 



Report, Hepatic Department George H. Conklin 13 



Report, Lichen Department Charles C. Plitt 14 



Miscellaneous Notes 14 



Sullivant Moss Society Notes 16 



Exchange Department 16 



"Entered as second-class matter August 21st, 1913, at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. " 

 Copyright, 1917, by Edvi^ard B. Chamberlain 



The November number of THE BRYOLOGIST was published December 15, 1916. 



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