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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
PROVO, UTAH

January &, 1952

BOTANY DEPARTMENT

Mr. James W. Bee
Department of Zoology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear James:

i am enclosing the list of identifications of most of the Alaska plants that
you left with me for identification. There are one or two grasses not yet reported
but I shall try to send you those soon. I have had a delightful time working over
these grasses and seeing vicariously the vegetation of the Arctic.

i am enclosing a label of the type which we had printed up to use with your
collection; I hope you approve of its form ané content. I am placing the mounted
specimens for the 1951 collection in our herbarium, The 1952 collection, however,
is a little more extensive and these I am dividing up. I am placing a specimen
in our herbarium and sending the remaining specimens to you. I am also sending
one or two specimens to the National Herbarium for checking for my own satisfaction.
Should I find any differences in the identification of these field numbers I shall
notify you immediately.

‘ The balance of the plants from the Arctic, that is those which are not grasses,
I am listing on a separate sheet identified only to genus in most cases, As soon
_as I can get the Carexes identified to species I will pass the word aiong to you.
Now, as to the plants from Wyoming and vicinity. I do not recall what you wanted
me to do with them. What I intended to do was to send you a list of the specimens
that are complete enough for herbarium sheets or for identification, and the others
i would note only to the genus. Will this be satisfactory? JI am sorry to be so
long in getting these identifications to you; however, I surely appreciate receiving
the plants. They are a wonderful addition to our collection. They make me want
to spend some time in the Arctic studying them first-hand, but then I think about
the mosquitos you told me about and 1 lose heart.

Best regards to you and Mrs. Bee.
Yours truly,

Cited IN.

Bertrand F, Harrison
Chairman of Botany Department

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