The New York State College of Forestry 
at Syracuse University 
HUGH P. BAKER, DEAN 
DEPARTMENT OF WOOD TECHNOLOGY 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
H. P. BROWN, PH. D. 
C. C. FORSAITH, PH. D. 
W. M. HARLOW, PH. D. 
A. J. PANSHIN, M. S. 
C. H. CARPENTER, B. S. 
H. O. GEORGE, B. S. 
R. A. COCKRELL, B. S. 
Director and Curator of the Botanical Gardens 
Singapore 
Federated Malay States 
My dear Sir: 
Permit me to acknowledge the safe receipt of two packages of 
herbarium material. This proves very acceptable and I assure you this 
institution and I personally appreciate the gift. Incidentally, you will 
be glad to learn that we are soon to have a new$600,000 building in which 
ample provision has been made for an excellent herbarium. You can well 
understand why I am especially grateful for this material which you have 
sent. 
I believe you are already conversant with the fact I am interest¬ 
ed in the woods of your region and am always glad to obtain authentic 
samples. Where these are backed by herbarium material from identical trees 
it makes them all the more valuable. In lieu of this it is desirous to 
know in what herbaria the herbarium material is on file and the sheet num¬ 
bers of the same. 
I am wondering how I can serve you professionally. I believe 
that you are already receiving the publications of this College but for your 
further information enclose our official list. Should there be some of 
these which you have not received to date and which prove of interest, I 
shall be glad to see that they are forwarded to you. 
You will be glad to know that the Manual of Indian Timbers which 
I have in progress of preparation with Mr. B. S. Pearson of the Forest Products 
Laboratory in England, is nearing completion; I expect to complete my por¬ 
tion of the manuscript before the first of July and this publication should 
be available sometime in the autumn. 
Thanking you for your splendid cooperation, I remain, 
Professor or woggl Tecnnoiogy. 
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