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but in all cases care was shown to select that material which did not bear Car- 
dot’s autograph, so that there could be no possibility of identification in the 
future. I hope that it may be possible to so warn scientists of this despicable 
attempt to blast another’s reputation that future bryologists will be on their 
guard agaiiist the appearance of this material of Cardot’s under any other author’s 
name. 
Monsieur Cardot writes that he was spared the grief of personal loss among 
the members of his family. He is now living at i, rue Lacuee, Paris, XII, and 
is employed as technical adviser in the Economic Bureau of the Indo-Chinese 
Government. 
It is hardly necessary to say that Monsieur Cardot may be sure that he 
has the deepest sympathy of all members of the Sullivant Moss Society in his 
losses, and that all will learn with the keenest regret that it is necessary for him 
to say farewell to bryology. 
E. B. Chamberlain. 
Extract from letter from M. Cardot under date of March 30, 1919: 
“Pour en revenir a ce qui me concerne personellement, je dois malheureuse- 
ment vous dire, que je me vois, a mon grand chagrin, dans la necessite de re- 
noncer' completement et definitivement a. la bryologie. * * * En admettant 
meme que, dans quelque annees, lorsque les conditions economiques seront 
redevenues normales, il me soit possible de songer a reprendre mes travaux 
bryologiques, je serai trop vieux alors, je le crains, pour revenir a ces etudes 
apres une aussi longue interruption, et je craindrais que mes publications ne s’ 
en ressentissent facheusement. J’ estime qu’ il me vaut mieux, des maintenant, 
considerer ma carriere scientifique comme terminee. La perte d’ une partie de 
mes collections et de ma bibliotheque et de toutes mes notes manuscrites serait 
aussi un obstacle serieux a la continuation de mes travaux bryologique. Ce n’ 
est pas, vous le pensez bien, sans un cruel dechirement que j’ai pris cette decision 
de renoncer aux cheres etudes qui ont ete le grande charme de ma vie.” 
SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY NOTES 
Attention has already been called to the death on March 31, 1918, of Dr. 
George Golding Kennedy, who had been a member of the Sullivant Moss Society 
since 1901. In the issue of Rhodora for February, 1919, Mr. E. F. Williams 
has published an appreciative biographical sketch of Dr. Kennedy, accompanied 
by a portrait. Though prevented from active work upon mosses through fail- 
ing health for some years before his death, Dr. Kennedy always maintained a 
warm interest in the Society and its work. His most extensive bryological work 
concerned the floras of the Willoughby region in Vermont and the region around 
Mt. Katahdin in Maine. All his botanical collections have been given to the 
Cryptogamic Herbarium at Harvard and to the New England Botanical Club. 
The following new members have joined the Sullivant Moss Society since 
the publication of the January list: 
1 Bryologist 22 : 11-12. January, 1919. 
