DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
BOTANIST. 
BUREAU OF SCIENCE. 
MANILA. 
April 25y 1907 
Dear Dr. ^earns; 
The package of plants you sent by mail came touay in 
good condition and there are some fine things -in it. Keep the boy at it 1 
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and tell him to gather specimens of everything in sight, the more the 
better. 
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I had a letter yesterday from the Fletcher uoy,acknowledging 
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the Halcon and southern trip photos. It was written from Bombay just 
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as he was about to leave for Italy. He complained that he hadn't .aeard 
from .you, so you aad better "get buisy”.^ 
Whitford tells me that Ahern has oraereu Hutchinson into tne Agusan 
vailer for three months-I wish that I could ue *|iong to gather in 
the vegetation etc.I 
Halcon paper is finished, I mean both; the account of the trip and 
the botanical account and enumeration of species. Morover I received 
yesterday from Brotherus, Finland, an enumeration of Halcon mosses, and 
today a letter from Ames stating that his MS of the ^alcon orchids 
would be mailed on tue first of tne present month, so you see things 
are progressing. I'll catch up fairly KXJt well with my work before 
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leaving, but still have two papers to finish. 
