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touch with the surviving members of Mr. Durant's family, and 

 learned that one or more copies were still in their possession, and 

 I was assured that our Association would receive a copy if one 

 could be secured. Subsequently, however, Mr. Morris met with 

 a sudden death and I took the matter up with Dr. C. Stuart Gager, 

 Director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and today I received 

 the following communication, together with the book which is 

 here shown : 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., March i8, 191 5. 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



My Dear Doctor Hollick: Some months ago we had some 

 correspondence with reference to the possibility of my being 

 able to secure for the Staten Island Association of Arts and 

 Sciences a copy of Durant's " Algae and Corallines of the Bay 

 and Harbor of New York." I am very pleased indeed to state 

 that I have secured from Miss Emma Durant, the author's 

 daughter, a copy of this work. I indicated to her the suitability 

 of having a copy at your institution on account of its local 

 interest and importance there. 



I am sending the copy to you by messenger with this letter. 

 Your acknowledgment may be made to Miss Emma Durant, 608 

 West 148th Street, New York City. I think we are very fortu- 

 nate in this matter, for as far as I understand it, your institution 

 and ours are the only institutions in Greater New York which 

 have copies of the work, unless possibly there is one in the New 

 York Public Library. Of that I am not certain. 

 With best wishes, I am 



Yours very sincerely, 



C. Stuart Gager. 



Further than that, and adding very materially to the value of 

 the work, we also received a series of press clippings referring to 

 it, from the Journal of Commerce Dec. 27, 1850, New York 

 Tribune Dec. 28, 1850, New York Herald Dec. 29, 1850 and 

 Jan. I, 1851, Sentinel and Advertiser Dec. 31, 1850 and Feb. 

 7, 1851, Evening Express Jan. 4, 1851, Times and Messenger 



