Canada, 
Ottawa, 15th Nov., 1909. 
Dear Prof. Collins, 
After having for more than a year done little 
or nothing at "botany I have again begtxn the distribution of speci¬ 
mens and send you by mail to-day, in foiir parcels, E78 specimens 
which have been laid aside from time to time during the last year. 
There may seem to be a large porportion of eastern species among 
these plants,bht none of them have been sent to you before from 
the east, I am at work now at my father's collections made on 
Vancouver Island during the last two years, and will also be work¬ 
ing at his Yukon collection made in 1902, which, with the exception 
of Carex, has not been touched. In a separate parcel marked IV 
there are some Behring Sea plants which were for some time in 
Washington and were to a slight extent injured by insects. We 
have kept our herbarium entirely free from insects and there has 
never been any necessity for poisoning duplicates, so that I tell 
you this in order that you may take what precautions you think 
necessary with these specimens, I shall be able to send you in 
the course of a couple of months about the same number of specimens 
from the Pacific coast, 
J.F.Collins, Esq., Very truly yours, 
Brown University, — 
Providence,R.1.,u.S.A. Curator of^the Herbarium. 
