and Pringsheim's Jahrbucher. The Annales des Sciences Nature lies does 

 not come amiss either. For myself I rejoice chiefly in the copy of 

 the Bryologia Europaea. THAT is just JOLLY, I tell you. 



Only a few weeks ago the glass ware ordered for the physiological 

 laboratory came to hand. With this and the few more important pieces 

 of apparatus that I ordered,! feel that we have made a fair beginning 

 toward a physiological laboratory. I believe it is the best, if not 

 the only one, west of the Alleghanies. 



My work on the mosses is progressing at the usual snail's paee. 

 The packages are piling up faster than I can clear them off. Knowlton 

 was out in the Yellowstone country all summer collecting fossil plants 

 and brought in a stack of things with him , including two fat packages 

 of mosses. Leiberg and Anderson continue to send me collections from 

 Idaho and Montana respectively. I have packages on hands also from 

 New Jersey , Kansas , Nebraska , California, and one on the way from Oregon. 

 I believe I wrote you that Dr.R,6ll,the sphagnologist , ( by the way you 

 will remember him as the duffer whose paper oh the classification of 

 the Sphae/naceae you paged for me out of Flora~--a mean job it was,£or 

 it had been reset)went on a collecting trip along" the Northern Pacific 

 in June last. He wrote me on his return, asking if I would elaborate 

 a part of his collections , and came up from Chicago the other clay to 

 make final arrangements about the assignment. So there is that more 

 to be done,and done by April 1. I am to do the Dicranaceae dissi- 

 dent eae ,Mniaceae and Polytrichaceae. Cardot,a French bryologist gent 

 me 200 species of my desiderata the other day. This , together with 



