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REPORT OF THE SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY MEETING. 
The Society held its sixth public meeting in Boston on December 30th, 
1909, in connection with the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, which was having its sixty-first meeting. We met in the Hall of 
the Boston Natural History Society on Boylston street, holding an all-day 
meeting, the morning being devoted to social purposes, and to the arrange- 
ment and inspection of the exhibits. As there was other botanical sections 
in session all day, this gave an opportunity for some who were unable to 
attend in the afternoon to join us for an hour. 
The formal meeting was called to order at 2.30 P. M., presided over by 
Dr. Evans, who first read some letters from absent members, among them 
letters from Dr. Best, Prof. Holzinger, Prof. Fink, Dr. Bessey, and one from 
Prof. Farlow, inviting the out-of-town members to visit the Agassiz 
Museum on Friday afternoon and examine Sullivant’s herbarium. 
The papers were then presented. The first by Dr. Sheldon, “ Collecting 
in the Cranberry Glades, W. Va., illustrated by two photographs. The 
Glades are swampy tracts in plateau country at about 4000 ft. alt., reached 
only by a lumber railroad, and offer much of interest. 
The second paper was by Mrs. Britton, “The Genus Splachnobryum in 
North America,” discussing a species from the greenhouses of the New York 
Garden, and showing a slide of this rare species, and figure from the Jour- 
nal of Botany. 
The third paper was by Mr. R. S Williams, “ A Plea for the Collection 
of Better Specimens.” He finds that the common species are often care- 
lessly and incompletely collected and represented, even in the large herb, 
aria. 
The fourth paper was by Miss Lorenz, ‘Some Lophozias oi the Ventri- 
cosa-group,” discussing L. longidens , L. longiflora and L. confertifolia, 
with three plates; it is printed in this num.ber of The Bryologist. 
The fifth was by Dr. Nichols on the “ Ephemerae of Connecticut,” 
reviewing the genus; showing that we have, instead of the four given on the 
List of Connecticut Bryophytes, only three, one of which, E. spintilosum, 
was not originally on the List. 
The sixth paper was given by Mr. Chamberlain, “ A Curious Hylo- 
comnium,” describing a peculiar form of H. unibi'atum^ with fimbriate leaf- 
tips, collected near Montreal by M. Dupret 
The last was by Dr. Evans, who spoke on “Vegetative Reproduction in 
Metzgeria,” illustrated by drawings upon the blackboard. The gemmae of 
