LETTER No. 42. 



Specimens received since last report. My best thanks are due to 

 those who continue to favor me with specimens, as it is only by study 

 and handling of abundant material that anything approximating the truth 

 can be learned. Some of these specimens were received by me some 

 time ago and should have been acknowledged in last letter, but were omitted 

 through misplacement of the copy. 



Where we have made notes on the specimens, we have lettered the 

 contributors a, b, c, etc., for convenience in future reference to these 

 notes. We are receiving so many specimens now for determination, that 

 we have very little time for other work, and hence we have done but little 

 other publishing during the past few months. In our printed letters we 

 do not give authorities for names, believing that a binomial should repre- 

 sent a plant's name; but in acknowledging the specimens to our corre- 

 spondents we usually give the names of the authority in event they desire 

 to use this information. All specimens received are usually acknowledged 

 by private letter soon after they come into our hands. 



Heretofore it has been our policy to indicate the unnamed specimens 

 received from correspondents with the hope that they would publish them. 

 Very few have complied. There has been in the past so much farcical 

 work done in the way of so-called "new species" that we have preferred 

 to not engage in the work to any extent, but so many unnamed specimens 

 have accumulated in the museum that it is embarrassing to preserve them 

 without names. In the future we intend to publish and name such 

 specimens as come to us in the sections in which we have thoroughly worked 

 up the old species, namely, the Stipitate Polyporoids and the Gasteromycetes. 

 If we stop to name every specimen which is received which we do not 

 recognize, in keeping with the usual custom in these matters, Saccardo 

 would have to hire an extra clerk in order to compile them. We should 

 much prefer to leave unnamed all specimens except those belonging to the 

 sections in which we feel we have a competent knowledge of the old 

 species. 



Please note my recent change of address to England, which is now, 

 (U. S. Address: C. G. LLOYD, 



224 W. Court St., c / Mr ' S " A " Skan ' 



Cincinnati, Ohio.) 37 Holmes Road, 



October 1, 1912. Twickenham, England. 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



AT LOS ANGELES 

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