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Dues and subscriptions for coming year, already paid 19.72 



Sales of back numbers, and incidentals 41.01 



Receipts from advertising 10.31 



Receipts from sales of Hasse Lichens 10. 50 



Expenditures 



Printing and stationery •$7.48 



Postage and bank fees 8. 49. 



Herbarium expenses 8.95 



Express charges upon shipments of the Bryologist 2.67 



Express on Hasse lichens 30.00- 



Intelligencer Printing Co., s issues of Bryologist and Index 223.41 



$281.00 



Cash on hand at close, Nov. 30, 1916 78.58 



$3S9.SS 



Respectfully submitted, 



Edward B. Chamberlain, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Report of the Election of Officers for the Year 1917 



Whole number of votes cast, 14. 



For President, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, 14 votes. 

 For Vice-President, Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, 14 votes. 

 For Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. E. B. Chamberlain, 14 votes. 

 No votes were cast other than as reported above, the candidates thus being 

 unanimously elected to the offices designated. 



Elizabeth M. Dunham, Judge of Elections. 



Report of the Curator of the Moss Herbarium for 1916 



During the past year 125 specimens have been mounted in the Moss Her- 

 barium of the Sullivant Moss Society, adding six species new to the herbarium, 

 which now contains 3980 specimens, representing 1179 species and varieties 

 belonging to 253 genera. A generous contributor has been Mrs. E. G. Britton, 

 who has presented duplicates of the Langlois collections in Louisiana, many 

 specimens from the herbarium of the late William Mitten — which have not yet 

 been mounted — and other mosses. Other contributors have been Mrs. E. M. 

 Dunham, John Davis, H. S. Jewett, W. E. Haydock, George H. Conklin, H. 

 Dupret, Frank Dobbin, W. S. Cooper, Mrs. D. W. Jackson, and W. R. Taylor. 



In spite of efforts to stimulate interest the Curator has to deplore the fact 

 that the majority of our members seem to remain apathetic in their collections 

 and correspondence. There is so much to be found in every locality that would 

 be valuable material for study that it is most unfortunate in view of the growth 

 of the herbarium that members of the Society can not be induced to be deeply 

 interested in bryology in a substantial way. 



