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The article in the Journal of Botany came out in the July 

 number. As you see I am still in Washington and it is very doubt- 

 ful whether I shall get away on any official business. By the way 

 have you a photograph of ii.W. Short? Wien he dies he left his 

 entire herbarium to the Smithsonian Institution, but for some reason, 

 it never came here. I came upon this information rather inGident<^ 

 ly, and have been looking up the matter since. I find in a letter 

 written to Cr.Gray in 1S83 the following clause from his will. 



" I give and bequeath my herbarium of dried plants to the 

 Smithsonian Institution of Washington City, upon the condition that 

 the collection be carefully preserved and subject at all times to 

 the inspection of those in pursuit of botanical knowledge." 



Vftien you get back to Cambridge I may ask you to look up some 

 of his correspondence with Dr. Gray. 



Yours very truly. 



