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George Lincoln Goodale, Director, 5 Berkeley Street 

 Oakes Ames, Assistant Director, North Easton 



Robert Cameron, Head Gardener, Raymond Street '^^W^gf Cambridge, MaSS., U.S.A. 



May 1 5th. 1909 



My dear Dr. Kennedy, 



My weeks just now are "busy with students and with Gar- 

 den and Museum matt ers , otherwise I should have called on you on some of 

 these lovely days, after having first ascertained that you were at home. 



I write now in regard to a trifling affair which cannot be much 

 longer deferred. 



We are now arranging the division of the appliances which belong to the 

 Museum proper and thdse which are distinctly for teaching. Among the for- 

 mer we have a few , a very few, micro scopes .The best of these stands is the 



excellent one which you kindly gave us a few years ago. To obviate any 

 ambiguity relative to its assignment, I an now going to ask you to write 

 me a line definitely turning it over to the Museum as one of its instru- 



ments .As soon as this is received I propose to provide 44, with a suita- 

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ble set of eye-pieces and object ives } and it will then be employed in the 

 service of the Museum, instead of by the students who could hardly be ex- 

 pected tc appreciate such a fine stand. All this suggestion is based, you 

 understand ,upon the hypothesis that you are willing to have the stand 

 thus assigned. 



Mr. Ames has been appointed Director of the Garden and Instructor in 

 Botany .We are pleased at this settlement of a very difficult question, 

 Please give kind regards and all good wishes to Mrs .Kennedy, 

 and accept the same for yourself from 



Yours sincerely 



