St.Louis, Mo., 
.February 3, 191? . 
Dear Professor Female!: - 
I have the honor to inform 
you that at the meeting of the botani¬ 
cal Society of America, held in Wash¬ 
ington on .December 28, 1911, you were one 
of five chosen from the associate member¬ 
ship list to be elected to full member¬ 
ship in the Society. 
I am, 
very 
Professor M. L.Fernald, 
Gray Herbarium, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
