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for the most part a superfluous evil, nomenclature is, to be sure, necessary, while 
the system represents a tangible scientific result capable of improvement. 
The application of these principles has for its consequence changes of the 
system, and the latter is accordingly in process of transformation. For this 
reason the elaborations of the several families do not at first appear in system- 
atic order. Each individual elaboration is a unit by itself, is separately paged 
and separately indexed. 
This important work promises well as the harbinger of a new era in system- 
atic bryology. And it well deserves the systematic support of all moss students. 
The first volume, Grimmiaceae, by Leopold Loeske, is ready. It is a volume 
of 250 pages, has numerous illustrations, all (or mostly) original. Price, 18 
Marks. The work appears in Numbers (Lieferungen), at 5 Marks each. Any 
number or part may be bought separately. Address, Max Lande, Berlin- 
Schoneberg, Miihlenstr. 8, Germany. 
John M. Holzinger. 
SHORTER NOTES 
From the list of new members of the S. M. S. for 1913, as given in the last 
number of the Bryologist, there was inadvertently omitted the name of Mr. 
Lowry Hagerman, the Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts. 
Readers of the Bryologist will be interested to know that in December, 1913, 
Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith presented to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden her micro- 
scopes and botanical apparatus, and her herbarium of about twelve thousand 
specimens, — the work of the past eighteen years. The Garden will continue 
the open sets of exsiccati and anyone interested should hereafter address Dr. 
C. Stuart Gager, Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York. 
There recently reached us the “First Circular” of the Fourth International 
Botanical Congress to be held in London, May 22-29, 1915. The unfinished work 
of the Brussels Congress in “(1) Nomenclature, and (2) Bibliography and Docu- 
mentation” will be taken up in addition to other things and English will be the 
official language, if so desired the propositions to be made in English, French, 
and German. The General Secretary is Dr. A. B. Rendle, Dept, of Botany, 
British Museum of Natural History, London. 
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT 
Offerings— To Members Only, For Stamped Self-Adressed Envelope 
Mr. George M. Pendleton, Sisson, Siskiyou Co., California. — Fissidens 
rufulus B. and S., and Fontinalis neo-mexicana S. and L. 
Mr. C. C. Plett, 3933 Lowndes Ave., Baltimore, Md. — Trypethelium virens 
Tuck. 
Dr. H. E. Hasse, Santa Monica, California. — Bacidium naegelii (Hepp.) A. 
Zahlbr., from California. 
