UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
FORE8T PATHOLOGY 
Brown University, 
providence, R. I., 
February 28, 1924 
Professor M. L. Fernald 
Gray Herbarium 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Fernald: 
I just had an inquiry as to who Mr. George B. Grant might be. 
I understand Mr. Grant recently died in California and left a 
herbarium of some 15,000 (?) specimens, some from Hew England 
(including Rhode Island) but perhaps mostly outside of Hew England. 
His home was, I understand, in Lexington, Mass. The specimens were 
left to a Mr. Tyler but whether Mr. Tyler resides in Lexington, 
California or elsewhere I do not know. Perhaps, if you do not happen 
to know anything about the man, you might put me on the trail of 
somebody who would be likely to. 
I am sorry to bother you but my only excuse is that you might 
be more likely to know something of him than anybody else I could 
think of. 
Sincerely 
J. FRANKLIN COLLINS 
