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October 6, 1908. 
Dear Prof, Collins:- 
The Clerk of the Courts was away yesterday, quite 
unexpectedly to me, hence my non-appearance at the Herbarium. 
Wendell picked the enclosed leaf on a ramble in Johnston, last 
Sunday afternoon,and asks what kind of an oak it represents. I do 
not find it illustrated in Dame and Brooks and so unload on you 
as usual. All the leaves were of the same character on the tree 
from which this was picked. The tree was abo^^t twenty-five feet 
high. 
There is a little pond known as Bellefont Pond, south of the 
Park Lakes that is quite full of water weeds and has a wild growth 
of shrubs and herbaceous plants around its borders. We can try 
as 
navigating it when you think the time could be^profitably spent 
there as elsewhere. 
Very sincerely 
Prof, J. Pranklin Collins 
468 Hope St. Providence, R.I. 
