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President 
PROF. CHARLES E. BESSES 
University of Nebraska 
Secretary-Treasurer 
CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD 
2420 14th Street, 
Washington, D. C. 
The Wild Flower Preservation Society 
of America 
An Organization for the Protection of Native Plants 
FOUNDED APRIL 23, 1902 
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Annual Members . 50 cents 
(Annual subscription to the Society’s 
official monthly organ, 
$j.oo additional.) 
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Fellows . . $25.00 
Patrons . . $100.00 
(Patrons are entitled to a perpetual 
free subscription to 
The Plant world.) 
Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, 
Washington, D. C. April 5,1907 . 
Professor J. Franklin Collins, 
Brown University. 
My dear Professor Collins 
I have just received your letter of yester¬ 
day, and hasten to reply. I had originally expected to go direct from Sew 
York to lantucket on Saturday, the 11th; but as I find the boat from Sew 
Bedford does not run on Sundays I have changed my plans, and could arrange 
to be in Providence the evening of the 11th, if that date finds the hall 
you speak of disengaged. 
If this date is also unavailable I fear we must give the matter up, 
for I could not think of allowing you to go to expense in the matter, and the 
attendance and results might not justify the Society or myself in hiring an 
expensive hall. I shall hope to hear, however, that the 11th is all right. 
Sincerely yours, 
