All letters on official business should 

 be sent to the Director. 



Geological survey of Canada, 



Robert Bell, M.D., D.Sc. ( Cantab.), LL.D., F.R.S., T.S.O., 



ACTING DEPUTY HEAD AND DIRECTOR. 



otta wa, £th...I.ehrua.ry., ig&j^ . 



Dr. George G. Kennedy, 



Readville, 



llass . , U.S.A. 



Dear Dr. Kennedy, 



Perhaps you will have forgotten that when we 

 were at Salem together last spring I promised to send you some 

 mosses collected in British Columhia. I have so many things 

 to look after when in the field that I do very little at Crypto- 

 gams and my collection of mosses was not very large. Shortly 

 after my return from the field my material, with specimens from 

 other localities, was sent to Dr. Kindherg for determination, 

 lie has reported on part of the specimens, of these^I send you 

 duplicates "by mail to-day. Hot many of them will "he interesting 

 to you except as coming from a remote region from which no mosses 

 have "before he en "hroiight, hut there are also a few good things 

 among them. VThen Dr. Kindherg reports on the remainder of the 

 specimens I shall send a Bet to you. 



I wish I could look forward to a visit to Boston again 

 this year, hut there is no hope of my heing there, and, if we 

 are to meet again soon, it will he in Ottawa. I hope that you 

 will some time he up this way and at a season when we can go 



