SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
S. P. LANGLEY 
SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington, d. c., October 30, 1899. 
Mr. J. Jranklin Collins, 
Providence, R. I., 
My dear Sir: 
Our first decade of North American Violaceae 
is now ready for distribution, and you will receive one of the sets shortly 
Please inform me as early as convenient whether you have been able to 
collect any material in this group during the summer. If so I should be 
glad to have xt sent on, even if incomplete, as you can probably supple¬ 
ment it with additional specimens next spring. 
Yours very sincerely. 
Assistant Curator, 
Division of Plants. 
