tion. 
fias f^.T. Hubbard given up his botanical interests or simply sold hie present 
collection with hopes of amassing another? It's fine that Batchelder is collect¬ 
ing so vigorously.if you think,when you see him,remember me to him. 
My congratulations to you on your fiftieth anniversary at HarvardI. fou are 
certainly active and vigorous still and I wish you many more such occasions.How 
many of your class do you expect to be at the Commencement exercises'? My own 
twentieth will come in two years more,though it seems hard to realize it. 
I haven’t had any time lately for any botanical work,though in the Christ¬ 
mas recess I 114 run over some of the files of botanical periodicals for any 
references hearing upon C 0 os County matters.It takes a great deal of time and 
more than I have to gnv.. to it,to do nytLi j...- Lo.-.i. .g': ly and follow up all the 
widely scattered literature. 1 - don’t know just what I shall do when I come to 
writing the introduction to the ^lora.Moore dossil'c feel able to help at all 
ani I think that it is more likely to produce a unified effect if one person doe 
it than if others try to joi£ in,though it of course will suffer correspondingly 
from lack of their participation.probably the best thing will be for me to get 
the criticism of such as ^ernali and you before I commit to print what I may 
set down on paper.But that can hardly be for a year or more yet so I will not 
be too impatient. But as soon as one starts on any thing there are so many inter 
eating sidelines that open up before him that it is very timecoasuming to fin¬ 
ish even a job that looks as small as a county flora where the materials have 
been more or less organize! ani where one is not trying to do.anything startling 
but only to finiih the matter in an intelligent ani useful manner.It is always 
easier to collect facts than to digest them,but I should like to have the Coos 
County ^lora something more than a bare list, and contain an introduction that 
should be at least respectable ani aacurate.I have ramble! on unduly along ihia 
line,much as matters came into my head to write,but you will pardon me. 
Let me hear from you again,at least from Se.With best wishe* 
from as all. 
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