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Hearard took them all. ft went over them lunday, "" T enrard has put them 
ia good eavelopes, labeled "original '» when type or type collection, a 
and has them arranged in drawers like cards. ~rof. yokel's disregard 
of types is appalling, ^earard gave ft* a "bit from several and says he 
will lead any we may want to study at any time. He told me of the 
time he had setting the box of precious packets through the custom 
house . I could appreciate it— it was probably even worse going through 
the custom houses in 1920 than it is now. He told the officials it was 
nothing but plants and would not interest them. He did not want the 
box opened lest some fall out. H e was too obviously anxious to have 
the box passed unopened, so they openssd it. He illustrated how he 
triea to surround the box with his ooat during the examination lest t 
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the draft should blow some packets awa#. The examiner opened one osfter 
another and fished Clown in the box and finally disgustedly chalked it, 
I \-ish Henrard w re an American. H e has studied and collected since 
boyhood/ 5 tt o is a chemist and apothecary, ^e moved th the Haag a few 
years ago, la order to be seared the Hijks herb.,— he is- from the 11m- 
b*m region. Two yenrs tsgo he 'was offered the position of custodian 
and accepted it with the stipulation that he be given two years on 
.grasses alone. SO»« time before this he had been exploring among old 
bundles in the attic at the herbarium and found Balaasa's own herbar- 
ium, given after Ms death to Leiden and forgotten. It has been a 
perfect gold mine to a earardv He has got the whole grass collection 
of the herbarium identified and distributed. ~e teaches two days a w 
week. He told me Saturday that he had told the director that he 
couldn't take his classes that week because he wanted to go over 
grasses with me. ~e knows so many in detail , he almost made me 
dizzy. He has been checking up Keis so far as the herb allowed, 
B*t asked the direct o» for the Leiden grasses and H protested so 
strongly that they were not sent. I showed him some of my records 
of «•««* doings, n agreed perfectly in our estimate of U.S. 
