over a month or so until you can get further information and. thereby strengt' 

 en your position? Surely such an important matter as the validity of a large 

 and important genus like Nephrodium must be determined by ascertained facts 

 rather than suppositions. 



"Kindly let me know whether under these circumstances you. do not agree with 

 us thst your article would better be held over rather than to go to pressin 

 its present rather vulnerable form. 



Mr. George « : . Davenport. 



