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Thuidium microphyllum (Sw.) Best. On decaying log, Morgantown (3885) ; 

 along path and roadside in woods near McKinney's Cave, Bretz (4173, 4176). 



Thuidium virginianum Lindb. On rock near Mont Chateau (1529). 



Ulota Ludwigii Brid. On trunk of birch, Durbin (1044); Cranberry Glades 

 (3673). 



West Virginia University 



PHOTOGRAPHING MOSSES * 



In March, 191 1, the Editor offered prizes for good photographs of mosses, 

 but no entries of sufficient merit were received until after the time limit set had 

 expired and the^ only one or two were received that were considered good enough 

 for reproduction. For various reasons, even these did not become available for 

 the Bryologist. Almost the only good photographs of mosses that have been 

 published were in Nina Marshall's book in the Nature Library series, but un- 

 fortunately, the photographs were about the only good thing about the book. 

 Prof. Fink and others have produced some excellent photographs of lichens, 

 but nothing equally good has been produced of the mosses and hepatics, so far 

 as the editor knows. Just how much of the beauty and delicacy of moss struc- 

 ture and outline can be adequately reproduced by photography is an unanswered 

 question. The photograph herewith presented represents an attempt to find 

 out what the camera will do. The Editor has set as his bryological task for the 

 next few years, the problem of the photography of mosses and will be glad of 

 suggestive criticisms and prints from other people's negatives. This photograph 

 was taken with a WoUensak Royal Anastigmat, series I, used in a Bausch and 

 Lomb camera constructed for micro-photography, the very long bellows making 

 possible the enlargement. The stop was U. S. 16, the light from two windows 

 behind the camera and the plants posed with a background of black velvet. 

 The exact time of exposure unfortunately was not noted in a "findable "place. 



NECROLOGY 



Jekn Gabriel Edward Narcisse Paris died April 30, .1911, in his eighty-fourth 

 year, having been born November 8, 1827, in Saint Contest, in the department 

 of Calvados, a part of lower Normandy. He died at Dinard, in the department 

 of Ille-et-Vilaine. This is also in the northwest corner of France bordering the 

 English Channel and forming a part of the old province of Normandy. He was 

 "General de Brigade, " hence the more familiar name General Paris; he was also 

 commander of the Legion of Honor. Having reached the age limit in 1889, he 

 was retired, and it was after this time that he issued his best known work, the 

 Index Bryologicus, the first edition in 1900, and the second in 1906. In 1862, 



* See Plate IV. 



