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Derr Hr. Collins 
Dont worry about the exchange. T have enough mounting 
and work to do, to keep my girl busy for a year ahead, so there is plen 
ty of tine, and we are not anxious to build up a large New England col¬ 
lection, but if you have any very interesting things from Paine , we 
hell be gladt to see them. I an sorry to hear that your teaching takes 
so much of your time. Y/e manage to keep busy all the time , but it has 
the help, mounting paper, envelopes and case room that I needed, and 
noxr we are getting in a lot of new furniture, so that I shall have all 
the room as well.I am to have a little room a 1 ! for my mosses alone, 
and nothing e 1 se in it, and I shall be very glad. 
hr. • ilia ins has returned from Bolivia ad borught a v 
very "ine collection of noses and ferns, the finest that have ever been 
brought to our collections, so Prof. U derwood says.Prof. Underwood is 
now in Jamaica, and will go to Cuba later, the Eastern end , to collect 
fungi with Prof, Earle,Our managers seem vailing to pay the expenses 
for exploration of the best Indies, of any botanist that we choose to 
send there, T/hat is the matter with your New Englad moneyed men ? Y/hy 
dont you start in to wake them up ? hr. Schermerhorn has just died, who 
gave Schermerhorn Hall to Columbia, “is Daughter is Mrs. Bridgham of 
rovidence. (^an y u not Intercut dir. B. in travelling and collecting , 
I know that he has much natural talent in that direction, and has done 
some drawings of fungi for Dr* Farlow, and some mosses for me. His 
tastes ran toward Entomology a -1 so. 
