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THE BIG THREE- evening News, established issi. > COVER THIS FIELD, 
l WEEKLY GAZETTE, ESTABLISHED 1820. ‘ 
Uteputcly Pulediting 
D. D. REED , 
BUSINESS MANAGER . 
November 8, 1899. 
My Dear Mr. Collins' : 
Permit me, tardily, to express my regrets that I was 
absent from the city at the time you honored me with a call last summer. 
The fact of the matter is I did,not know anything about the call until a 
day or two ago, when ! met Mr. Gatchell- and he informed me of the circumjsl. 
stance. I would have been delighted, if it had been possible at that 
time, to have taken you and Prof. Bailey to our best botanical ground, 
the Peninsula, where I am sure you would both have found a good deal to 
interest you. ! will live in hope that another opportunity may present 
itself to permit the carrying out of a plan which would “Have been 
if I had been here to have proposed it. 
That day,I spent with a Buffalo botanical friend in a trip down the 
Niagara gorge, which resu : ted in many new acquisitions-new to me, that 
is to say. 
I trust you are well. Extend my compliments to Prof Bailey, and to 
,f r. Lei and, if you shall chance to meet him. I would also be pleased to 
be remembered to Prof. Pumpus and to Mr. Bennett. 
Very truly yours, 
yyiictorr 
