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[[strikethrough]] My contention that [[/strikethrough]] Mrs. Chase was one of the chief contributors to the collection of grasses [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] which are now in the herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution. [[strikethrough]] Her efforts [[strikethrough]] She cajoled, informed and finally persuaded botanists ^[[insertion]] on both her trips to [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] Brazil [[strikethrough]] both in 1924-25 and in 1929-30 [[/strikethrough]] to contribute