A. AUGUSTUS HEAIvY, 
FREDERIC A. UUCAS, 
PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
CURATOR-IN-CHIEF. 
THE MUSEUM, 
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 
EASTERN PARKWAY. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ....November 30th.., I9L0 
■Professor J. Franklin Collins, 
Brown University 
Providence, R.T 
My.dear Sir:- 
I am enclosing a chart of storage material which had ac 
cumulated at this Museum prior to the present organisation and executive 
development under Doctor P.A. Lucas. Records concerning the accession 
of this material have been long since lost or mislaid, and the source of 
such material immediately preceding ownership by this Museum is unknown 
to us. Doctor Lucas, the Curat or-in-Chief, and the Curator of Natural 
Science, ha^e exhausted e^ery -possibility through records now preserved 
in book form and such loose sheets as yet have been found, with the hope 
of ascertaining further data regarding this herbarium material. Much of 
it, because of the collectors themselves, and because of the dates and 
stations at which the specimens were collected, is priceless. We are de¬ 
sirous of placing these in the regular series of herbarium material, when 
credited. 
Will you please do us the great favor of annotating on the 
chart itself such additional information, or such corrections of data as 
you feel qualified to present regarding either one or more of the col¬ 
lections indicated, so that our final records may be as flxll as it is 
possible to have them? 
Thanking you in advance most cordially for your kindness, 
and for the labor involved in giving such information, may I remain, 
Very heartily yours, 
Curator of Natural Science 
