Professor Merritt L. Fernald, 
Gray Herbarium, 
Garden Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Professor F®rna] d: 
I 1 earned a great deal in our con¬ 
ference of last Wednesday. Since then I have written up 
what you told me about the distribution of plants in 
general and pollens in particular, and I would be very 
grateful if you would be good enough to r ra ad over the en¬ 
closed pages and let me have any comments which may occur 
to you. 
A table and a chart will ultimately be included. 
The table is the one you compiled at our first conference 
last year, and which I showed you the other day. There 
are still one or two questions about it. The chart is 
likewise unsatisfactory in one or two places, but the 
difficulties are only details. 
Miss Lev?is will return Bowman 1 s book on Monday 
or Tuesday. Will you mind if I ask her to telephone 
in advance of her coming, with the hope that she will 
see you at the time and can ask you to settle, on the 
spot, the two or three details which need attention? 
Incidentally, if you have any comments on my 
pages Miss Lewis will be glad to either tell me about 
them or take your specific dictation. Or, finally, 
if you want me to come ou t to the Herbarium, she will 
tell me so. 
I am very grateful for your courtesy and kind¬ 
ness, and while I am sorry to bother you, you must know 
that your h°l p is really needed, and I believe, in a 
good cause . 
fmr/l 
Pnclosure 
Francis M. Hackemann, M. D. 
