of plants to be identified the place looks very different from 

 Hew. I have been making up the sets for another of the centuries 

 we send out from time to time. You may have seen some of the 

 specimens at Sray. That is a mussy task, but it is finished. 

 f« are working on Hrof. Hitchcock's Andean grasses — they are 

 wonderfully interesting. Dr. Rock is sorting up his plants and 

 giving us a lovely lot of grasses from Yunnan and Tibet. They 

 will be very difficult to name, probably many are undescribed. 

 He secured excellent photographs of many of the bamboos to ac- 

 company the specimens. Dr. Rock is leaving in October for Yunnan, 

 this time in the employ of the Arnold Arboretum, to secure trees 

 and shrubs. 



Cur recently acquired assistant, Mr. Hotchkiss, is in Hew 

 England just now. He plans to go over the trail on the Presi- 

 dential range. He and a younger boy are camping. I told him, 

 if he passed ohelburne, to call on you. He greatly admired the 

 picture of you with the humming bird. He is a very promising 

 young man, and I think you would find him interesting. 3hel- 

 burne is not in his path, though, so he may not have time to go 

 tfeat way. Te have long been wishing for ''a \>oj to raise TT for 

 the grass herbarium, and I think we have found him. He received 

 his master's degree this spring from Syracuse, and is going on 

 for his ""'h. "D. later, with an agrostological subject, 

 ".'ith very best wishes, 



Yours sincerely, 



