18 West 85>th Street 
New York City 
June 10th 1924. 
Dear Collinss- 
Please pardon me for the delay in acknowl¬ 
edging the receipt of your check for $26.25 paying for 
the Bauer mosses sent you. It arrived just a day or 
two before school closed, and the day or so after I went 
out to Bushkill for a little visit with Bartram. Had 
a great time in spite of the rain. I have just got 
around to letters again af&er the return. College Board 
Reading is also on and I am more than merely busy. 
Pound one or two good things wM&e at Bushkill, viz:- 
find fruit of Webera albicans, large sterile tufts of 
Pogonatum capillare, along the Delaware river below the 
villagein the Jersy shore. It is certainly far south 
and it is not over 520 feet above sea ffy level according to 
the Gov't maps. Pound Buxbaumia, and the first collec¬ 
tion of Mnium btellare for either of us. There are a 
number of other things that look funny also, but nothing 
farther named up to date. 
Not much else doing. I am slow¬ 
ly getting back work caught up and hoping to be able to 
say that the coast is clear when the real vacation begins 
some ten days from, now. Shall stay right here for a w 
while after all work is over, so as to rest and play on 
the mosses a bit. 
Hope all is going well with Edie and 
George, to whom also my kindest regards. 
Best wishes, as ever, 
E.B.Ch. 
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