L. ROBINSON, Curator CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. 



2Srd July, 1911. 



tear Dr. Kennedy: 



In niy interest in getting our plans for building perfected and getting 

 a hast of small questions about details settled, T find I have been delayed 

 longer than I could have isrshed in transmitting to you a vote passed by the 

 Yi'sitihg Cornmittee at its meeting toviard the end of June. The vote was ss 

 follows: 



"Learning that a patron, Viho isishes to be anonymous, has subscribed the 

 ■sura of tvienty-five thousand dollars to rebuild, considerably extend, and ful- 

 ly equip the -section of the building of the Gray IlerbariuTn devoted to its li- 

 brary i-e, the members of the Coir;ir:ittee appointed to vrsit the Gray Eerbariura, 

 request our Chsimian to report the gift, viith appropriate explanation of its 

 high importance, to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, "^-e further de- 

 •sire the Curator of the Herbarium to convey to the donor an expression of our 

 ■sincere gratitude for aid -so generous and -so -well directed in enabling the 

 Gray 'Herbarium to -secure the highest degree of -safety for its valuable libra- 

 ry. " 



I assure you there -Tms great enthusinsm over the recent gifts. There Tsisrs 

 also 8 hope expressed that the donor of the anonymous gift might be inlling 

 to let hi's hame be knoTin and associated -vvlth the library. Indeed, the mem- 

 bers of the Committee desired me to communicate thrs hope to the donor. 



