SOME ADDITIONS TO THE ALASKEN MOSSFFORA. 



Among some mosses collected June, 1900, by Mr. J. B. Flett in Alaska 

 near Nome, lat. 66° N., I have the pleasure of reporting the following as of 

 special interest : 



1. Polytrichum Jensenii Hagen. 



2. Dicranum Groenlandicum Brid. 



3. Dicranum Bonjeani polycladon Br. Eur. 



4. Webera carinata (Brid., Boulay) Limpr., which I had collected ster- 

 ile in N. W. Montana. 



5. Psilopilum Tschuctschicum C. Muell. in Bot. Centralbl. Bd. 16 (1883), 

 P- 93. 



This last plant agrees well with Carl Mueller's description of the Siber- 

 ian plant, kindly furnished to the writer by the courtesy of Miss Josephine 

 Tilden from the library of the University of Minnesota. Mr. R. S. Williams' 

 plant collected on the " Left bank of Klondike below Bonanza Creek, June 

 i8th, 1899," and distributed as No. 682 is also this species. J. M. Holzinger. 



NECROLOGY. 



Mr. D. A. Burnett was so well known to all advanced students of North 

 American mosses that a brief account of his life will be of interest to all our 

 readers. There is probably no man living who knew mosses in the field bet- 

 ter than he did, and his collections now presented to The Museum of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, by Mrs. Smith, form a valuable addi- 

 tion to the botany of North America, Personally, Mr. Burnett was one of the 

 most lovable men I have ever met and his death was in every sense a per- 

 sonal loss, 



David Alexander Burnett was born in Searsbury, Orange Co., New 

 York, August 2d, 1839, At five years of age his father removed to a farm in 

 Orange Co,, between Coldenham and Little Britain, He attended the pub- 

 lic schools for a few years, then the Academy at Montgomery, N. Y., and 

 Warnersville Seminary. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, 

 N. Y., in 1862; taught in the Academy at Middletown, N. Y., and Greenville 

 and Moravia, N. Y., and in Charleston, S C. Was married in 1864. In 1869 

 he removed to the oil regions, Pa., to engage in the oil business. He lived 

 in Bradford, Pa., for the past twenty-five years. 



In November, 1900, Mr. Burnett went to the Museum of the Botanical 

 Gardens at Bronx Park, New York City. Ten months previous to this his 

 physician discovered a valvular affection of the heart, but no serious trouble 

 was anticipated very soon. He worked seven weeks at the Museum, and on 

 Christmas morning went to his brother-in-law. Dr. D. T. Millspaugh, at 

 Paterson, New Jersey, to meet his wife, who arrived there from Bradford, 

 Pa,, on that day, and to enjoy a large family gathering. The next day he 

 had a severe attack of heart trouble, and in another week was confined to 

 his room. He died early on the morning of Jan. 31st, 1891, at Riverlawn 

 Sanitarium, Paterson, N. J. He was buried on February 3d, 1901, in the 

 church at Little Britain, N. Y. A. J. GrOut. 



