
          Utica. Nov. 30.


 Dear Sir


 I take the liberty
 of addressing you for the purpose
 of inquiring if you can give me the
 address of T. F. Allen M.D., who
 made his botanical fortune in
 the discovery of Marsilea quadrifolia
 in Ct. I have heard that he was
 in a new university not far from
 Chicago, but this is no help to me.


 What I wish of him is - to obtain
 a specimen of this Marsilea if I
 have anything for which he would
 exchange. And what I wish of
 this is to see if it is anything like
 a plant I found two of three years
 ago in a pond on Cape Ann, MS,
        