UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 
ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 
Washington, D. C., y e bruary 17, 1917 
Prof. J. Franklin Collins, 
468 Hope St., 
Providence, R.I. 
Pear Prof. Coll ins 
The paper which I gave before the Botanical Society 
on the Chinese Chestnut was published in the American Journal 
of Botany in slightly different form with another title in 
October 1916, and I take pleasure in enclosing a copy of the 
article herewith. 
Very truly yours 
Assistant Botanist. 
plr/mw 
