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I might take a complete set if informed of its character and how 

 large it might be. 



'My herbarium is going to Brown University, at least if 

 they have the enterprise soon to provide safe quarters for it. 

 " 'Are you the son of a townsman of mine? If so, I extend 

 to you the greetings of a Rhode Islander and 



" 'Am truly yours, 



" 'Stephen T. Olney. 



" 'A Car ex should be collected when its fruit is just so ripe 

 and plump that it will not fall off, and root-stocks are always 

 desirable. No more pressure should be put on them than is 

 needed to keep the leaves flat, not so much as to crush the angles 

 of the culms. Spikes with very ripe fruit in paper bags, if pro- 

 curable at all, are very desirable, not pressed at all; but these 

 refinements in collecting will hardly do when interruptions may 

 occasionally occur, when one's scalp may be in danger.' " 



That the conclusion of Olney's postscript was by no means 

 altogether fanciful is brought home to us by an anecdote which 

 Dr. Greene told at the memorable seventieth birthday meeting 

 held in his honor by this Society. In 1870 he was collecting in 

 an unsettled region to the west of Denver. His botanizing had 

 led him about a quarter of a mile into an attractive valley, when 

 he looked up and caught sight of an Indian on horseback. It 

 was useless to attempt to retreat, so he continued his work as 

 though quite oblivious of any danger. Indians seemed to appear 

 from nowhere, until he thought there must have been 150 in the 

 valley. Their chief demanded the bag which Greene carried. 

 When he found nothing in it but plants he handed it back with 

 the exclamation "Ugh! Medicine Man." He asked Dr. Greene's 

 name, and in return said that he was Colorao. This notorious 

 chief of the Utes was much feared by the settlers, and less 

 than three years after this meeting with Greene he murdered an 

 entire agency. 



With the letter from Olney, the autobiographical fragment 

 which we have been following practically ends. Greene appears 

 to have written it originally in 1884, and to have copied and 

 recast it six years later. The few pages of the earlier manuscript 



