All letters on official business should 
be sent to the Director. 
Geological Survey of Canada, 
Robert BellD. Sc. ( Cantab.), M.D ., LL.DF.R.S., I.S.O., 
ACTING DEPUTY HEAD AND DIRECTOR, 
OTTAWA ,. 20th February, 
Dear Mr. Collins, 
The reprints regarding the plants of Maine 
and Rhode Island reached me to-day and I have read them with 
great interest. I thank you very much for sending them, for 
believe me, I have always a bright spot in my memory in con¬ 
nection with our trip to the St. John River in 1899. My time 
since then has been largely taken up with getting out a work 
on the birds of Canada. I have got this out of the way now 
and I am doing more work in botany than I have done for the 
last few winters. Last year I made a large collection of 
mosses in the Rocky Mts., and I have just had them named,among 
them are a number of good things, some of them new. If you 
would care to have a series of the interesting specimens you 
might let me know and I would gladly send them to you. Thank¬ 
ing you again for the reprints, 
I remain, 
Very sincerely yours, 
