18 west 89th St. N.Y.B. 
March 28, 1919. 
Dear Collins 
Fo some time I have been, intending to return you the 
specimen of Haplodon workskjoldii that you loaned me last winter, but 
have waited until there was time to do the thing properly. I en- 
close your specimen, and with it tracings for you to keep’of the 
sketches made of the plant while studying it. They are merely im¬ 
portant for the stem section and the leaf sections to me, for that 
was the point that was causing the trouble in the previous study. 
The thing for which I wanted it for comparison is a funny sterile 
critter that Holzinger had in some material from Alaska. We all 
puzzled over it. He first suspected Dicranella squarrosa, then 
gave that up, and cast about in the Splachnum- Dissodon region. 
I suggested possible Meesia, then came back to some relative of Dicra¬ 
nella squarrosa, though the cross sections do not warrant it very well. 
Mrs. Britton and Williams say "Dior, squarrosa, var.,,, formerly col¬ 
lected by Faxon at Amraonusuc Lake, N.H. and sent out as a Meesia. 
(See N. A. Flora, Vol 15, part 2, p. 83), it was also distributed in 
Sull. & Lesq. #162 as Meesia longiseta van ?. " And so the mat¬ 
ter rests for the present. I am not quite satisfied, but I have 
not, seen the Faxon or L&S specimens, and have not the time further to 
go into it for Holzinger; it is his funeral. 
Holzinger has recently sent me, also, specimens of 
Mniura flagellar©, S.&.L. from just north of Kodiak Id, Alaska, from 
which last island it had previously been reported by Williams. I 
have some fair drawings of the creature, though the material is 
scanty and wretched. Apparently Holzinger has not so much lit¬ 
erature at his command as I thought. I think that no plate of this 
beast has ever been published, though Williams figures a leaf section 
in the Bryologist, xv:10, and Lindberg published quite a descriptive 
note in the Cont. fl. crypt. Asia© bor-orient. 
No particular news to write from here at present. It has 
been a vacation week and a chanco to play a whole lot on lots of the 
things that have been waiting for attention. I stick closely at 
home, and fuss around. Today is so cold and windy that there is every 
incentive to stay close to the radiator. The winter term has been 
busier than usual and with plenty of extra work. I’ve had to let nearly 
everythig else slide for the time. With the opening of the spring 
term Monday, 1 hope that there will be a little easing up of the actual 
time needed for the school work. Whether there will be any more real 
spare time or not, I have no means of knowing. Anyhow, there will 
be a plenty to do. The Hound Pond. folks have been at Southern 
Pines this winter and are still there. I rather expect Henry will 
come through here next week, which is precisely the time that I wish 
he would not, for I have things jam full with the school debate and 
other matters. However, it will be about the same any week, unless 
he comes on a Saturday. I have no idea how things are going to run 
for the summer, whether I shall be at Hound Pond, or not, but suppose 
things will go according to the same old plan. Anyhow, I’m busy here 
until the first of July, with the reading of Exams, and such matters. 
How are you and your father getting along. Did you 
both escape the flu ? That seems to have been the worst thing^ that 
