THE SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY; THE BRYOLOGIST 
EDWARD B. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary-Treasurer 
18 WEST 89th STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 
November 8, 1914. 
Dear Collins:- 
I was very sorry to miss your call here, but trust you 
will understand how it happened. I sent you a note to the TT o%el, which 
I hope you got all right. 
The trip had been pannned for some time, and could not very well he 
postponed at short notice. We had oerfect weather, aud a fine walk. 
The latter part of the trip took us to the so-called Painter's Arboretum, 
now rather falling into decay. It is a fine collection of trees some 
ttofeee miles from Media, Pa. made by two excentric Quaker brothers, between 
1040 and 1075. There are trees from all over this country, and many 
exotics, most of them in fair condition yet, though the olsce has been 
suffered to run down hill of late. 
I had a chance to talk over the prosnects of the SMS meeting 
in Phila., with Mr. Kaiser, and he seems to think that the thing will 
be a success. We shall have somewhat of a local following to draw on, 
(though, thank the Lord, not the lady who held forth in Washington on 
the Bartramiaceae) He also pronoses a short walk on the forenoon fol¬ 
lowing, should enough plan to go and the weather be suitable. TMs will 
of course be mostly local personages, s,s the others will wput to attend 
the regular sessions. The meeting itself, as I think I wrote you, 
will be on Wednesday, Dec. 30, with a programme session at 9.00 P.V. 
I hope that you will be there. You will be at the general meetings any¬ 
how, I suppose, but I shall hope the chance for the Moss meeting will 
come too. And is there any chance that, if present, you will be able 
to take part in the programme? If $ou can, I shall be mightily pleased, 
but if you cannot, I shan't misunderstand it. We are both busy. 
I myself, as I wrote you am more than busy, as there has been a 
decided increase in the school work for the pear, and in the attendance 
