
          they would be most invaluable
 for purposes of study and reference
 in Library, as well as of
 particular interest if not
 indispensible in my own researches.
 We shall be placed
 under profound and most 
 grateful obligation. May I suggest
 that if it would not be in
 your power to contribute a copy
 of the "Flora of North America"
 referred to -- perhaps it then
 might be at your convenience
 to send copy of  -- "Flora of the
 Northern and Middle Sections
 of the United States ---[?]"


 I need and can only say that
 any volumes which you may
 contribute will be prized not
 more from their scientific value
 than as momentos apreciated
 with your illustrious name.

        