In coxisideration of Mr. Kidder's wish to defray the entire expense of 

 building the new v?ing, I am anxious to knovf if you would mind letting the 

 one thousand dollars of your gift last spring, which we had intended to use 

 on the building, be applied on steel cases for its furnishing. I shall be 

 greatly obliged if you will let me know about this vdthin a few days as k'r. 

 Kidder has desired Tne to ascertain whether the anonynious donor of the 

 thousand dollar subscriDtion would siind having aoiDlied to some other need 



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of the Herbarium than the construction of the new wing. 



You will reirember that you gave another thousand dollars last soring to 

 be used in the purchase of books for our library. I want to tell you that 

 this has meant a great deal to us in the last few days. Weigel, the Leipzig 

 book-dealer, has just issued a catalogue of the library of the late Franz 

 Buchenau. This catalogue contains a very large number of the smaller and 

 rarer European floras and other papers on systematic botany, the carefully 

 selected accumulation of years of scholarly botanical activity and including 

 many which rarely come on the market. Such private libraries are becomeng 

 few and this is an exceptional opportunity to fill up little lacunae (as 

 well as a few larger ones) ia the library of the Gray Herbarium. Thanks to 

 your liberality I have been able to order freely from this catalogue, in 

 fact several hundred titles. 



With kindest regards and the feeling that you will rejoice with us, I am 



Very sincerely yours, 



