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the Bossier Herbarium and Library to the University of Geneva was announced 
in March, 1918, and the Conservateur, M. Gustave Beauverd, becomes a member 
of the faculty of the Botanical Laboratory. The last word received about the 
library and herbarium of M. J. Cardot, formerly at Charleville, France, was a 
postal card from Leopold Loeske, from Berlin, dated February 28, 1916, in 
which he stated that the War Ministry had assured him that “Cardot’s house 
was uninjured and his collections undisturbed.” C. Warnstorf, 1 in Hedwigia, 
has described some new (?) species of mosses from Japan, South America, and 
Europe, among them 'Funaria flaviseta, Climacium acuminatum, and Bryhnia 
angustifolia from New York! L. Loeske 2 also reviews a paper by Warnstorf 
on Sphagnum, Fontinalis, Pohlia and Grimmia. K. Muller continues his con- 
tributions on the Hepatics to Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora. 
From H. N. Dixon 3 we recently have received two contributions on the 
mosses collected by the Smithsonian African Expedition of 1909-10, and from 
Prof. Borgensen 4 5 a list of the mosses and lichens collected in the former Danish 
West Indies (1892-93 and 1895-96, 1905-1906) including two new species, 
Trichostomum perviride Broth, and Bryum Raunkiaerii Broth., both sterile 
specimens. 
Since my last report, various members have been active in Red Cross work, 
notably Dr. Nichols 6 at Yale, who has been demonstrating the value of Sphag- 
num in surgical dressings; Dr. Evans volunteered for Red Cross work in France, 
but the armistice came in time to stop his going. He completed the MSS of 
the Marchantiales for N. A. Flora, to which Dr. Howe has contributed the Ricci- 
acecc. It is not necessary to enumerate the work of the Bryologist. During 
the year, some of the Arctic collections made by the Macmillan Expedition in 
Northern Greenland and those collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition 
have been received. Mr. Williams 6 has listed some of the mosses and lichens 
collected in Grant Land by the Peary Arctic Expedition. Miss Coker, 7 under 
my direction, has revised the North American species of Encalypta, and we 
have reduced the number of species from 18 to 8. A notable departure has 
been made in the Flora of Bermuda, 8 by including the mosses, hepatics, and 
lichens with reading chapters on the Algae and fungi, the mosses contributed 
by E. G. Britton; the hepatics by Dr. A. W. Evans; the lichens by Dr. L. W. 
Riddle; the Algae by Dr. M. A. Howe, and a brief account of the fungi, thus far 
imperfectly known, by Dr. F. J. Seaver. The Flora of the Bahamas, now going 
through the press, will also include these groups of flowerless plants. 
1 Bryophyta nova Europaea et Exotica 57 : 62-131. 62 figures. 1915. 
7 op. cit. 6 : (28) 849-947. 1916. 
3 Smithsonian Misc. Coll. Volume 69 : Nos. 2 and 8. 1918. [See also Bryologist 21 : 93 and 
95. Nov., 1918.] 
4 Dansk. Bot. Ark. 2 : No. 9. 1918. 
5 Journal N. Y. Bot. Garden 19 : 203-220. 1918. 
6 Torreya 18 : 210-211. 1918. 
7 Bull. Torrey Club Bot. 45 : 433-449. Pis. 13, 14. Nov. 15. 1918. 
8 Flora of Bermuda, by Nathaniel Lord Britton. 585 pp. XI. Illustrated by 519 cuts, in 
text, with colored frontispiece. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918. 
