Jan, £6, 1911, 
Dear Diddle:- 
Yours of the 24th is at hand. The collection 
of Connecticut mosses will be turned over to you at the next 
Club meeting, unless something 1 unforseen prevents. SM# It 
would have been returned long ago had I not been told each 
time T had suggested returning it that I had better keep the 
specimens until they were needed, or were too much In my way, 
or words to that effect. Ever since you told me at the last 
Club meeting that "as sonn as they were nicely named" you 
would he glad to have them I have had them on my desk and at 
odd torrents T have been revising, re-examining, and studying 
the former doubtful specimens. At present 1 have only three 
doubtful ones left and I hope to have these off the hoards 
before Feb. 3. Ever since last Club meeting I have been 
planning to return the specimens at the Feh. meeting. 
The collection Is only a small one ( so far as bulk is concern¬ 
ed) as often only two or three stems were sent as a specimen. 
There arc, however, between 65 and 70 numbers as I recall 
without counting. 
Your suggestion in regard to certain of myduplicate mosses 
is superfluous. It will be only a pleasure to place a set of 
them in the Club Herbarium now that there is some prospect that 
they will be taken care of. They will necessarily have to come 
