UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 
March 3, 1983. 
Mr, Alexander Wet-more, 
Biological Survey, 
Washington, B. C, 
Bear Mr. Wetmore; 
I understand that you are to make an expedition 
to the outlying islands of the Hawaiian group. Should it he 
convenient for you, I wish you would get collections of the 
grasses of these islands. In 1916 I spent several months 
in the Hawaiian Islands studying the grasses. My report 
on the grasses was published as a Memoir frcm the Bishop 
Museum 8; 101—830. 1988. Our information concerning the grasses 
of the outlying islands was very meagre. I should like very 
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much to supplement the report by an examination of more 
specimens from these small islands. Anything that you can do- 
in this way would be greatly appreciated. 
Very sincerely yours • 
A. S. Hitchcock, Botanist In Charge of 
Systematic Agrostology, Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 
