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Dear Collins:' 
West 59 St., New York City, 
29 Nov., 1908. 
Your letter received. Doing nothing l Well, you are 
a very luck man in writing me as you did just "before the Thanksgiving 
recess,otherwise I think you would 
not have got any answer until 
Christmas time. I am about as busy as the time will allow, and 
perhajbs a little more so. For the last month I have had two private 
lessons of an hour each every day, and it has consumed the time most 
wonderfully. I have not had a chance to look at the micro. since 
Election day. So-—don't think that I am sitting around looking for 
work to do. You may remember that funny looking moss from Mt. Des¬ 
ert, that you and I thought might 
when I came to get a peep at it on 
our old friend Aulacomnmum palustr 
be a funny form of Philonotis, 
Election day, it turned out to be 
e, under some new disguise. I felt 
decidedly cheap. I am glad that you have found Conomitrium , T 
found a little of wht I think is that some years ago in the C&0 canal 
above Washington, but it still stays unstudied in the package at home. 
I wish that you could get enough of the species to ma.ke an Offering 
in the Bryologist some time this coming year. I do not eant to 
trespass upon your time tho, you already have enough to do. But 
if you can at any time'-you kncjvi that I am overjoyed. 
There are already a heap of S 
ecies piling up for me to name, 
the work. So I am not taking any 
I really cannot fond the time for 
new ones on, save for particuls.r friends. 
A new part of E&P has just come to hand, which I send with thif 
