SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
O. RROWN OOODE, Assistant Secretary, 
in charge of U- 3. National Museum 
Museum will send a man to assist in making up the 
sets, and I assume that Professor Trelease will also 
send some one from St» Louis,' 
I think we are all agreed that you should take 
such specimens as you desire for the Harvard Her- 
barium, and that the remainder should be made into 
as many sets as practicable for distributi on to 
such institutions as will make the best use of them. 
It would seem that some system of mani folding the 
labels should be adopted so that eight or ten copies 
could be made at once, and that the persomdesig- 
nated for the work should attend to both the sort- 
ing and labeling. 
I agree fully with Professor Trelease that 
special care should be taken to make the first two 
or three sets as complete as possible, and that the 
