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duction from the regular fare that our trip from San 
Francisco to New York is absolutely free, compared 
to what we would have to pay if we bought tickets 
step by step. For this reason you.need not be fright- 
ened if you receive drafts; from London for about 
five hundred pounds. You.see this is practically the 
sum of all our.railroad and steamboat expenses, in- 
cluding paying £129, 10, 8 to Mr. Logan which he 
had paid out for,our.trips through to Bombay. Our 
trip. through the East Indies by the Royal Duteh 
Steamship Company is not included in this as I will 
get from, them a.twenty-five per cent discount as a 
traveling, scientist,'1. e., if I can make them believe I 
am gne..,I have learned much about the trip there 
and: we both now leok forward to it as the goal of 
the whole tour. A-very nice letter from Dr. Treub, 
Secretary of Agriculture of the Dutch Hast Indies, 
offers.us accommodations at the Royal Botanical gar- 
dens. and laboratories for as long as we care to stay 
there. -Accordingly we do not, look for many | hotel 
bills in Java. The climate at, the gardens.in the high 
mountains is said to be simply perfect.. :I-have just 
received a fine letter from Mr. Palmer with full di- 
rections for the trip in India, 
Well, good-bye, with best love to you, each and 
every one, especially mother and yourself, 
I am your loving 
Tom. 
