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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
S. P. LANGLEY 
SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington, d. c., June 13, 1899. 
Prof.J.FranklinCollins, 
12Q East Ave, ,Pro vidence 
My dear Sir:- 
R.I. 
I thank you for your prompt response to my circular? 
and for your kind offer of cooperation. I should like to obtain 
the following species from the list which you name;- V.palmata, 
V. cuoullata >and V. pubesc ens . Please secure forty specimens of 
each of these. They should be in good fruiting condition at the 
present time and I am particularly in need of specimens of this 
sort as I am 4 well provided with flowering material. 
Yours very truly. 
Acting Curator, 
Division of Plants 
