Ju8t what has come up to make him especially 
anxious to get this Ichang seed I do not know. 
You probably do. If they don't reach you with 
this cablegram I will wire you again in Peking. 
If you do go up to Ichang, I hope you will get 
some seed, if you can, of the Davidia involu - 
crata and anything else you find up there that 
is interesting." 
Mr Pairchild sent Mr. Meyer on October 11, 1916, a copy 
of Dr. Galloway's letter of October 3, 1916, with enclosure. 
Mr. Pairchild's letter of October 11, 1916, is as follows: 
♦•I am sending you a copy of Dr. Gallo- 
way's report on the Beimer situation. 
"I trust my cablegram reached you and 
that you understood from it that you would 
be authorized to make this change in your 
plans in order to visit Icliang and collect 
there Pyrus calleryana . I hesitated to 
direct you to make so radical a change as 
this may mean in your plans, but the im- 
portance of Beimer' s work and the oppor- 
tunity to assist in such a big piece of 
constructive introduction work makes it 
, seem worth while for you to postpone your 
trip to Manila until after you have rounded 
up these different varieties of pears and 
secured large quantities of seed for intro- 
duction. 
"In your letter which you wrote from 
Portland, after visiting Beimer, you 
mentioned as almost totally immune to the 
pear blight your SPI No. 21880, Pyrus ussu - 
riensis . Is this the true ussuriensis? 
You remember there was some discussion about 
it in the early days- of its introduction, 
and I think you took the matter up with Prof. 
Sargent. My impression is that he maintained 
that it was not ussuriensis but chinensis. 
Have you anything to say with regard to this 
matter? I imagine until Rehder gets the 
genus straightened out we will be at sea as 
to the specific value of these Chinese forms." 
The enclosure to the above letter, a copy of Dr. Galloway's 
letter of October 3, 1916, is as follows: 
December 31, 1916. 
