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a work is in .the facts it records, not in the opinions promulgated or 
adopted, a view which seems not to be universally held in such cases. 
Three hundred and eighty-seven species are listed, of which two hundred 
and forty-seven are Bryales, ninety-two are Jungermanniales, and thirty- 
one are Sphagnales. Of the three hundred and eighty-seven species only 
sixty-eight are peculiar to America. Apparently great care has been taken 
to make the list as compjete and accurate as possible. No student of the 
mosses of the Northern United States can afford to be without the list and its 
price is merely nominal (thirty cents). Inquiries should be addressed to 
George S. Godard, State Librarian, Hartford, Connecticut. 
New Dorp, N. Y. A. J. Grout. 
REPORT OF THE SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY MEETING. 
The fifth public meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, Decem- 
ber 30, 1908, at Baltimore, Maryland, in connection with the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, then holding its sixtieth meet- 
ing. We were assigned a room in the Eastern Female High School Building. 
Prof. Bruce Fink presiding, called the meeting to order at 2 P. M. At this 
same hour in a near Ipy room was a joint ecological symposium of the Botan- 
ical Society of America and Section G of the A. A. A S., and Prof. Fink 
having a paper there was obliged to leave early in our session. Miss Lorenz 
read her paper on the “ Genus Cephaloziella” which is printed in this num- 
ber of The Bryologist. Prof. Fink then’called Dr. Alexander W. Evans to 
the chair and presented his own paper on “ Licheno-ecologic Notes from 
Beechwood Camp ” also given in this number', with three illustrations. 
The third paper called for was “Notes on the Structure of the Genus 
Sphaerocarpus, and its place in Systematic Botany,” by Miss Caroline C. 
Haynes,' read for her by Dr. Evans. Original drawings from nature were 
shown illustrating all known species of the Genus Sphaerocarpus (except one 
from Chile) including a new species from the State of Washington, here 
referred to and illustrated for the first time as Sphaerocarpus hians. These 
drawings form part of the work of monographing the genus, to be published 
later in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
The fourth paper was read by Mr. Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. on “A 
Preliminary Review of the Genus Usnea, as Represented in New England.” 
This will appear later in Torrey Bulletin. Mr. C. C. Plitt followed with a 
paper on “ The Lichens of Baltimore and Vicinity ” illustrated with espe- 
cially prepared specimens. The paper is given in this number. Mrs. 
Carolyn W. Harris then gave a most interesting talk on a series of 100 
beautifully mounted specimens of lichens collected at Mt. Meenahga, in the 
Catskill Mountains the past summer, made chiefly for the purpose of inter- 
esting the guest of the hotel in this group of plants and by their being on 
constant exhibition there act as a stimulation to others to make further collec- 
tions and studies, We shall give this later on with notes. The seventh and 
last item of the formal program was a talk by Mr. Wm. B. Davis on “The 
Preparation of Photographs of Various Microscopic Objects, and General 
Technique.” 
