18 West 89 th Street 
New York City 
Feb. 8th 1924. 
Dear Collins:- 
I have heard from Bartram, who is enjoy¬ 
ing himself tremendously in Arizona, and am going to 
write to Bauer tonight, starting the ball rolling for 
the various sets. I will attend to yours, and to 
Bamtram's as well, and to my own. The fact that 
Bauer dislikes to have more than Kr. 450 sent at one 
time makes it a bit awkward, but I shall retaliate 
by sending the checks at frequent intervals, until he 
is fairly forced to send things to me. 
Ohne Mappen 
means without the heavy paper sheets on which the 
specimens are mounted and without the binder's board 
I am having all of mine come that way, and 
covers. 
I understand his new lots are wholly that way. I 
have definitely decided that, save for such things as 
Drummond, Austin, Eullivant & Lesq. etc. I shall put 
all exsiccati into the general herbarium. It does 
not pay to hunt through forty places, and the chances 
of loss are greater. I shall even break up the Musci 
Galliae. 
No great amount of news. I have had a con¬ 
siderably greater pressure of work lately than usual 
and have had to let the little I was doing on mosses 
slide. I have a very peculiar Encalypta to work 
out for Bartram, as I think that I ## wrote you. 
Bartram writes that the unusual amountof rain in 
Arizona has brought about a copious fruiting of the 
mosses and he seems sanguine in the collecting of many 
new and interesting things. I hope that he succeeds. 
When I ast heard he was about to leave for a 10 day 
trip into the mountains with a packer and no one else. 
He spoke as though it would give him a fine opportunity. 
No great shakes else here. Hope all is well with 
you and that the folks also are well. 
Cordially, 
Qy Wuxo V c\ Lux A 
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