ERASMUS HAWORTH, PH. D. 
*’ Prof, of Geology, Mineralogy and Mining 
C. M. YOUNG, E. M. 
Assoc. Prof, of Mining Engineering 
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J. E. TODD, M. A. 
Asst. Prof, of Geology and Mineralogy 
W. H. TWENHOFEL, M. A. 
Asst. Prof, of Geology and Paleontology 
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 
November 6, 1911. 
Doctor M. L. Fernald, 
Cambrlgge, Mass. 
Dear Doctor Fernald:- 
I have received the 
copy of your paper on the Newfoundland flora and have read it 
with a great deal of pleasure and the added data given in your 
letter was also of much interest. I should be very glad to 
see as many of your photographs as it will be convenient for 
you to send me, particularly any that show something of the 
physiograpy and if you have any of the interior that show con¬ 
siderable are| of the country, I want to see them. I shall 
shortly have published a paper relating to the physiography 
which is lacking in facts relating to the interior and I should 
appreciate anything that would support or modify my conclusions, 
which in respect to a one time lower position of the strand 
line are substantially the same as yours, though based on an 
entirely different body of facts. 
I am sorry that I did not have the opportunity of rneet- 
ingjfihile in Newfoundland in 1910. We appear to have passed 
you several times and were either a few days ahead or a few 
days behind. 
In your paper you have referred to the flora of Anticosti. 
I spent an entire summer there in 1909 and was much interested 
in the plant life which for luxurienee and variety is one of 
the most striking I have seen and I believe it would prove very 
