Harvard University, 
Cambridge, April 18tb, 1890. 
Dear Mrs. Gray, - 
I. was sorry not to see Mr. Kidder on Monday. L was at a 
Corporation meeting vv’ben he called. Dr. Watson bad already told me that 
Mr. Kidder oropos-ccl to raise a subscription for the Herbari urn, and I was 
very glad to hear it, for it seemed to me that he would have a good chance 
of success. I quite agree with you that the Herbarium is now first ob.iect 
in the Botanical Department. Dr. Goodale said it in bis last report, and 
in my last report i said that $40, 000, were needed immedi etely. You observed, 
perhaps, that Professor Sargent in Garden and Forest complained that $40,000 
was too small a sum to ask for,- that $300,000 were needed. 
I knew that Dr. Watson bad very little time last year. This year I 
supposed that he vjould have some, but he said last week that he was making 
DO DFogress with the Flora. Lwill do everything in my power to promote 
Mr. Kidder's undertaking, and shall be much obliged to you if you will point 
out to me any specific things, 'whi cb I. might do. 
Very truly yours. 
