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Expenditures 
Printing and stationery $ x 4 - 4 ° 
Postage, bank fees, and incidentals 13-33 
Herbarium expenses 3-o8 
Express charges 3-02 
Labels for Hasse Lichens 11.36 
Plates for Bryologist 64.10 
Intelligencer Printing Co., 6 issues of Bryologist and Index. 275.26 
$384.55 
Cash on hand at close, November 30, 1917 63.21 
$ 447-76 
Respectfully submitted, 
Edward B. Chamberlain, Secretary-Treasurer. 
Report of the Moss Department for 1917 
During the past year eighty-five specimens have been mounted for the 
Moss Herbarium, adding fifteen species new to the collections, which now con- 
tain 4065 specimens, representing 1 194 species and varieties belonging to 257 genera. 
Contributors of much material have been: again Mrs. E. G. Britton, who has 
presented many mosses from the southern United States, and Dr. A. J. Grout, 
who has sent duplicates of his collections in Colorado. Other contributors have 
been Mrs. E. M. Dunham, Mr. J. M. Grant, Miss D. J. Levy, Mrs. Rachel L. 
Lowe, Mr. E. B. Chamberlain, Mr. J. Evans, Miss Helen E. Greenwood, Mrs. D. 
W. Jackson, and others. A fine collection of mosses collected in Washington 
by Mr. Grant has not yet been mounted and other material is to be reported later. 
Again we request that desirable material for exchange be sent wherever 
possible by our members. Species other than the very common ones are always 
welcome and the Curator is ever ready to undertake the work of determination 
for those who wish to have their mosses named. May the coming year be a 
profitable one bryologically for the continued growth of our members’ herbaria 
and also of the herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society! 
George B. Kaiser, Curator. 
Germantown, Pa., Dec. 16, 1917. 
Report of the Curator of the Hepatic Herbarium 
This has been a lean year in the history of the hepatic herbarium. Only 
1 12 specimens have been added. The number of specimens in the herbarium 
is 4789. 
Prof. N. L. T. Nelson gave a fine lot of packets from Florida representing 
the southern species of Frullania, Sphaerocarpus, and Lejeunea groups. Miss 
Lorenz supplied the new species found in New England during the year. 
We are glad to receive some 20 packets from the collections of J. Macoun. 
Mrs. M. E. Williams contributed a fine lot of duplicates and 23 addition to the 
