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Sl'KNCICR 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Washington, D. C., - Dec. 31 st 188*;^'^ 
[a Baird, 
Secretary. 
Dear Doctor : 
Mr. Rhees • reports that the typography of the 
Synopsis of Flora is accurate and satisfactory; but informs me 
that it is impossible at present for us to give an order for 
printing any part of an edition. We are crippled by the loss 
ofa «5^^t«i^const itute a reimbursement to the Institution for 
expenditures in connection ¥/ith the inter-national exchanges^ 
amounting to about S2,500; and until we can induce the Treasury 
to furnish us a duplicate of this we shall be that much out of 
funds. 
Are you coming on this winter to the 
meeting of the Board of Regents on January 14? You have been^ 
or will be^ o ff ic ially informed of your re-election as a member 
of the Board. This has passed both Houses and awaits the 
assembling of Congress before the President will sign it. 
We hope to get Congress to print for us 
the distribution edition of about twelve volumes of Miscellaneous 
iTollections , which have not been made up^but which are all printed. 
