reprints have just arrived and I now find to my 
annoyance that only about 190 out of the 200 order¬ 
ed have been supplied with plates. I will forward 
the package to you and make a proportionate deduc¬ 
tion from the bill. 71 i 11 this be satisfactory/ If 
the 190 will not be a sufficient number please let 
me know and I will go for the printer again and 
perhaps by Christmas we may be able to get the need 
ed ten plates out of him. 
I have recently taken pleasure in forwarding to 
you for your personal herbarium a set of the first 
century of our Exsiccatae Grayanae. They are sent 
of course as an exchange from Herb. Gray. 
Cordially yours, 
Mr. J. E. Collins. 
% 42 Shepard St., Cambridge, Mass., 
31 October, 1902. 
Dear Collins: 
I should have answered yours of the 18th long 
ago but have been more than usually busy and I hav 
had no time to write to you in detail about the 
drawings for the Manual. Indeed, I cannot do so to 
day, but will try to let you know what to begin on 
within a day or so. 
Your order for the reprints of the Iris article 
was duly understood and passed on to the printer, 
but through a blunder upon his part the reprints 
were sent without the plates. They were promptly 
returned to have the plates added and there has 
been the deuce of a delay in getting it done. The 
