&s a candidate, as they tell us very damaging stories 0"" his work 

 at the Univsersity of Minnesota, and a few questions directed ait\»r" 

 to Pro f. T»aernillan or urof. Waeflougal would prove this statement. 

 ] 8h*U be ver j glad to see a good , pfl-t ifttct , clever worfcar a t «tu» 

 vard, an;-' hope the appointment will be made soon, as 3 know we shal 

 nil • sk for que st i ons to be answered there and saiid material there 

 as soon as there is some one to use those valuable collections which 

 are now idle, TT nity of work and purpose is what we need in American 

 Bryology 21 d then we shall stop - and put an end to this sending of 

 American mosses abroad to byname d and also such abominthle results 

 as Ki ndb^rg' s garb! ing of Macoun 1 s mosses. 1 think we are all agree\|_ 

 that no matter what ve call our pl'.nts, they can bajf better known 

 a nd studied by those who see t> um grwwing, ihaa by those v ho do 

 not even know whet he * Boston is a suburb of TTew York, nolfthe di f f a 

 ferences and varieties of our geography and topogram hy . Those of us 

 who have been a broad and realized how little the;.- know about us, 

 feel very keenly about this, and are doing our best to stop it. 

 (/Lid this is true not only of mosses bu 

 are trying to keep the types here, and 

 monographs -we are succeeding in doirv; 1 

 half a century ag© ] am writing very 

 ] can trust you and that if Br Farlow 

 fide no a, you will know the trut h as f hj 



Yours ver 



