2\cxo IJJork Jktamcal (Garden, 
^vonx 3P'<xich, 
JXcxo ^orTi ©ittj. 
June 23d, 1899. 
Dear Mr, Coll i^ s, 
Express Address, 
Bedford Park. 
Freight Address, 
WlLLIAMSBRIDGE. 
189 
1 am glad to know that you are to be regu^ 
larly appointed at ^rown IJniv. and that you will at last be a member 
of the faculty 7 1 have neglected answering y oiOett er on account 
ol moving into our new ho jfte here at the gardens and getting serttled 
and over the spfing entertaining of the directors and members. At 
last 1 am free to settle)^ f^down to get ready for the ColumRis meet¬ 
ing of the 4 .*. A .S. and j want to ask you to do some work for us 
for that meeting. 1 send you a copy of Science with the noctice, ad 
have made out a complete list of all the species of mosses that 
were named for su'livant and all that were named by him. idr s. H.M. 
Smith has written this out for me and 1 ha'fe a duplicate copy. Now! 
want to pick out at 0 olumbia a set of specimens of all the Sulli- 
vantii species and have microscope slides made of them. 1 want you 
to help me as you make so much better slides than 1 do. 1 will 
get the specimens out and let you have them if you are willing to 
do this. 1 suppose you are not planning to go away just yet. We 
shall be here off and on all summer, not going away for more than 
two or three days at a time until Septermber, except for the A.A. A. 
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meeting. 1 nope you will excuse my long d elay in answering your 
letter’ as 1 have really been very busy. 
Yours truly, 
V r 
