New York, March 5th, 1896. 



Dr. George G. Kennedy, 



T shall be pleased to gisre. 



you any assistance in my power, especially as you are willing to 

 help yourseflf. T have no doubt you will be able to name most of 

 your specimens correctly without any help, but I will either send 

 you ft^ate rial for comparison, or have verifications made for you , 

 if you prefer. 



^lease accept |our thanks for the specimens of Tetraplodon, which 

 have been received, as well as for the offer of other duplicates. 

 v es, we shall be glad to have thme, as we are constantly exchanging 

 and I think T can put you in the way of some exchanges with them, 

 if ; ou care to do so. Mr. John K. Sma//, our curator has ^ine col- 

 lections of Pennsylvania, and aeorgia mosses, which he will be glad 

 to share with you, and C.G.Pringle, has Vermont, and Mexican speci- 

 mens to offer. When you get your specimens named up, write out a 

 1 ' st of the names and let me have it, and J will see what T can- 

 do for you. .Do you want at^y foreign mosses ? I have one Scandina- 

 vian bryologist wh^O wants American mosses. But I want you to join 



the league of American Bryologists that we are getting up, and prom- 



ise me not to send any American specimens abroad unnamed or in bulk 

 for distribution in exsiccatae. ^rof. Eaton supllied nardot with a 

 lot of White Mountain specimens, and he has issued them without 

 any exact localities or dates, or habitats, and with written labels 

 a distirc tly lower standard than has ever been taken on any of our 



Exsiccatae. 



