THE BRYOLOGIST 
Vol. XVIII March, 1915 No. 2 
THE PHILADELPHIA MEETING OF THE SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY 
According to the announcement in the November issue of The Bryologist, 
the Sullivant Moss Society held its eleventh public meeting in the Botanical 
Hall of the University of Pennsylvania on December 30, 1914, during Con- 
vocation Week of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Over forty members and visitors were present at the two sessions. 
The forenoon session was wholly informal, giving those present a chance to 
•examine the various exhibits that had been prepared by members of the society. 
Mr. G. B. Kaiser had a large representation of specimens from his own herbar- 
ium and from that of the society, and Dr. H. E. Hasse sent a suite of West-Coast 
lichens. These were arranged upon tables around the sides of the room, so as 
to facilitate leisurely observation and comparison. The Worcester Moss Club 
sent a number of mounted specimens of species collected by the members, espec- 
ially Mrs. Ella L. Horr and Mrs. Frank C. Smith, Jr., and a beautiful ^series of 
photographs of mosses and hepatics made by Miss Helen E. Greenwood. Mrs. 
Annie Morrill Smith sent her collection of photographs of bryologists and lichen- 
ologists, and a number of the original drawings and proofs for The Bryologist. 
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton had on exhibition large drawings of Bermudian mosses 
to illustrate her paper for the afternoon session. There was, also, a very inter- 
esting herbarium case, once the property of William S. Sullivant, which was 
presented to the Society some years ago through the generosity of Dr. W. G. Far- 
low. This case was used by Sullivant to contain mounted specimens and is in 
the form of an oblong box, with a sliding back and double sides, all covered with 
soft, brown leather. Inside there are some of the original green genus covers, 
and the soft, white sheets between which the specimens were laid. These still 
bear the species names in Sullivant’s handwriting. Miss Annie Lorenz had with 
her for exhibition a book of drawings, illustrating all the species of New England 
hepatics, and Mr. S. L. Schumo had a collection of microscopic slides showing 
various features of plant life, which he personally displayed and explained. 
Dr. Alexander W. Evans presided at the afternoon session, which was taken 
up with the formal program. The first paper was by Mrs. Elizabeth G. 
Britton on the Mosses of Bermuda. Mrs. Britton gave a short account of the 
physical features of the island, deploring the rapid inroads that market garden- 
ing is making upon botanically productive localities, and outlined the recent 
explorations made by members of the New York Botanic Garden. The Chal- 
lenger Expedition recorded eight species of mosses from Bermuda; at present the 
total is twenty-six species in twenty genera. Of these, Trichostomum bermudi- 
anum and Campylopus bermudianus are endemic, eight are cosmopolitan, six 
The January number cf The Bryologist was published January 1 6, 1915- 
