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[[in pencil]] Jan 20, 1930 [[/pencil]]

[[underlined]] representative! [[/underlined]] But even though it isn't representative I hope you will choose yourself delegate of something. ¶ I am glad your camera behaved well. I shall be eager to see your pictures. ¶ So Dr. Cotton couldn't keep up with you! We "old" agrostologists can outdo most people yet. I hear that Prof. Muller (one of the 3 Cornell profs. at Lavras, age about 30) said it was mighty hard to keep up with Mrs. Chase. He was on the São Geraldo trip - the man who liked horseback no better than I did.  We walked up hill and down a good deal, but I didn't know I was wearing him out. If Hubbard is going on with Trop Afr I wish he'd had a better master ^[[insertion]] to follow [[/insertion]] than Stapf. The more I [[underlined]] use [[/underlined]] Stapf's Trop Afr the more weak I find it. That Commelindium or some such name, including Hackel's Pan gabonense and another

Transcription Notes:
Stapf = Austrian born botanist