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PhmtnvoHs Feb. 6th, 1896 
Mr. J. Franklin Collins, 
Providence,Rhode Island. 
My dear sir: 
I have recieved your recent letter and enclosed specimen of Lemna 
valdiv iana Phil. Please accept the few things which I send in return. 
In the future I must lay out things for you as I think you may desire, 
and I hope that you will do the same for me. I am much pleased to hear 
that you are mooved into your new quarters as I am sure that it is 
the beginning of a new era in the development of systematic botany at 
Brown University. 
Yours very truly, 
