NATHANIEL T. KIDDER, 
15 STATE STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
AND 
MILTON, MASS. 
Boston, kass., 20 January, 1919. 
Professor J. Franklin Collins, 
468 Hope Street, 
Providence, R.I. 
My dear Professor Collins: 
You are of course aware of the existence of a committee of the 
N.E.Botanical Club, which has as its duty, the collection of mater¬ 
ial for a new edition sometime of the metropolitan Park Elora. Of 
the work which has been done so far one o-f ■ -th e-^Pantehave been left 
out of account entirely, the "Cryptogams* 1 . This has been done be¬ 
cause it was our impression that there are not . enough individuals 
interested in flowerless plants to make it feasible to include any 
ofthe differen t classes of them in the "Elora". 
How that you have taken the responsibility of the Curatorship 
of this class of plants in the club collection, I feel that it is 
my privilege^our opinion in regard to thisyou think that it 
at all _ . 
would be A worth while in getting out the new edition to attempt to 
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incorporate anything but f 1 owere^syplanus, ferns and their allies,* 
Yours very truly, 
