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notice to customs at N.Y. giving free entry for all but personal baggage. ^ [[insertion]] [[underlined]] Probably [[/underlined]] arrive NY about May 21 [[/insertion]] I'll have the things I buy all in one trunk as before and ready to be examined. 
     Mr. Maxwell said best route to Cuyabá was from here to Sta Rita on Paranahyba, across the corner of Goyaz.  (I'm trying to make the hotel people miserable until I get my malas - it is hard to make a Brasilian miserable.)  I shall not get mail again till I return to Rio about April 20.  
I have found your letter of Feb 19 which came with Feb 6 and one from Miss Niles, Feb 10.  I hope there will be some inexpensive editions of the Smithsonian volume on botany.   Otherwise it will be for diffusion of knowledge among the wealthy.

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[[left margin, written vertically, bottom to top]] *Please read also in introd to Pasp. and in ¶ at beginning of Setacea group what I say about selecting types. [[/left margin]]

     I am [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] glad you are going to leave Agrostis [[underlined]] stolonifera, palustris, [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] alba [[/underlined]] instead of var. names.  Mackenzie won't agree with you on latter.  His principle seems to be if there is any possibility of applying a name other than as it has been applied it is one's duty so to do.  [[underlined]] Please read * his letter to me [[/underlined]] on Pasp. ciliatifolium and my answer.  I wonder what Fernald will do.   He will [[underlined]] have [[/underlined]] to differ from Grass Hb. 
     Trunks here and I'm ready to start. Have about 10 minutes before going to train:  I can't help hoping you [[underlined]] can't [[/underlined]] get Mrs. Mullett to do drawings.  When they don't suggest the species what good are illustrations - like most in B&B Illust, for example.   I can fix up old [[insertion]] Div. [[/insertion]] agrost.  drawings in not much more time than it would take to try

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Merritt Fernald - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merritt_Lyndon_Fernald