UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
forest pathology Brown University, 
Providence, n. I., 
October 26, 1923. 
Professor M. L. Fernald, 
Gray Herbarium, 
Cambridge 38, Mass. 
Dear Fernald: 
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I have your letter of October £5 and am very glad that you have 
decided to change the name of the Great Basin. I had already thought 
of this very thing myself but decided it was too late to make any changes 
on your labels and so I had sort of "pigeon-holed" the idea until I saw 
you. 
I am very glad to Know that you took a panorama from the top of 
Griscom. X think this will help out matters wonderfully for I had not 
the slightest idea when I worked on the map as to the lay of the land 
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to the eastward, and your views from the hill above the Locked Camp will 
also come in very nicely for it is these side views that are lacking in 
my series. Even if some of the negatives are very poor I hope you will 
send prints of them because outlines may show and help a lot. 
You and Dodge may be interested in knowing that 1 am now working 
in odd moments uj)on a clay model of the Logan region, a little smaller 
than the map, trying to make it so that by sighting from certain points 
the profiles and contours will check up pretty closely with photographs. 
It is rather a tedious job but something that does not have to be finished 
