(5ra\> Iberbarium 
Ibanmrb “^University 
B. L. ROBINSON, 
Prof. Syst. Bot. and Curator 
M. L. FERNALD, Assistant Professor 
MARY A. DAY, Librarian CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A. 
Nov. 7th, 1912. 
My dear Collins: 
Your letter of the 15th Ult. came to hand just as I was up to my 
eyes in work,, being about to assign another contract to cover the rebuild¬ 
ing of the front portion of the central section of our building. Since 
then I have had scarcely a moment until now to study the catalogue you 
kindly sent. Now, at last, I have the contract duly placed, the contract 
for metal equipment fairly advanced, my annual report to the president 
out of the way, a meeting, of our all important Visiting Committee satisfac¬ 
torily over, and sundry other things attended to, and may now answer your 
kind letter. 
So far as I can understand the matter I concur fully in your choice of 
cameras. I will ask you accordingly to purchase for the Gray Herbarium 
One 5X7 Pony Premo, no. 7, fitted with a Zeiss Vila Protar lens and 
compound shutter. $ 143.55 
One 3 X 4 Pilmplate Premo $ 56.75 
Now I want you also to order for us a tripod, a developing tank (or tanks 
if more than one is needed to develop films of different size\ also a fair 
supply of developing dishes, assdesfebSfesdds, an appropriate supply of plate 
holders of the right sizes, a negative rack or two. Some printing frames; 
ipfact an appropriate supply of sfeMfe everything we are pretty certain to 
need in photographic work, including of course chemicals for developing 
