THE SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY ; THE BRYOLOG1ST 
EDWARD B. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary-Treasurer 
18 WEST 89th STREET 
Dear Collins:- 
NEW YORK CITY 
May 79, 101**. 
As long as I am in the business of running the machine to¬ 
night, I will put a note over to you. It will ^ot be long, but will 
let you know that I have not yot subsided into the arms of Murphy, Dinah, 
or any other beast. I am still alive, swearing a little if occasion 
warrants, and doing a hell of a lot of work. The same will ease up for 
the next few days, as today witnessed the close of the lower school,and 
there rerains anly the two weeks of tutoring,or rather of cfc«chiug that 
preceed the eiaams. The year has been busy, and the next one bids fair to 
be equally so, or even more so. Everything not connected with school 
has been side tracked for the last three weeks, and I have jumped as fast and 
as hard as possible. 
In consequence df a chance to read algebra exams on the college en¬ 
trance exam boadd, I shll be here until the last of June, hoping to get 
away by the 2Gth, so as to get home the 27th. T shall go djrectivvf and 
as speedily as possible^for I have decided to take in the Federation 
meeting at the Glen House, and Mt. Washington, the first of July? and shall 
have to get to Round Pond for a day or two to change the duds, and pack 
up what I oneed for the second trip. There will be not much scientific 
work, 1 fear, but, I’ve long wanted a week in the White Mts* and lie chance 
is too good to lose, especially at the price offered. If there are a few 
congenial spirits, even two or three, that will be all that there is neces¬ 
sary. The damn fool amateurs (like myself), go hang. Thev can't auifc 
spoil the mountains^ Then I shal try to get to the Van Buren meeting of 
tht JBS, as well^that comes the ten daye following t^e Federatio, so T 
do not expect to be safely esconsed in Round Bond before the 20th July, 
The Bryologist is still on deck, though the articles ‘art* plates that are new 
running in it are causing a greater drain on the purse than x to eoe 
