SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY 
EDWARD B. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer 
18 WEST 89th STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 
Jan, NO PEB. 
1 , 
1913. 
Dear Collinss- 
I*ve written out receipt blanks till the back of tee is 
dead tired, and I feel that I shall go on with tt Jan 1. 1913” until 
the end of the year. But by doing a little of the thing every day for 
a while the Job will be lighter in the end. The worst of it is, th& 
the January issue of the Bryologist has not yet appeared, as far as 
I know, and no one is therefore acquainted with the greet honor of 
my appointment as Treasurer. So I get no chance to send out any 
bills, until Bro Grout bestirs himself and gets the tings going. 
However, you knowing of the thing otherwise get your bill with this. 
It is not often that I get a chance to dunn you for anything, and I 
shall make the teost of it. See? 
No news. Next week beging to be busy after school as I 
have taken on again the burden of Private Lessons, and shall for a 
while have six of the beasts every week. Fortunately Tues and Thurs 
escape for the present, and I can take long breaths then. Have 
been busy at school for the last week in all the spare time that T 
could get getting asbestos tops put on the laboratory table. I had 
The whole thing blocked out, and the boards &c lying round when I 
t eft one night. The Janitor thought that he would do me a service 
so he did the whole thing up, Just as I didn't want it. I have rarely 
seen a more bitched Job of moulding cutting than he did. I thanked 
him profus ely , tho privately in the lab I cussed a blue streak, then 
