. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 9, 1900. f\ dear Rittor: Thanks f
. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 9, 1900. f\ dear Rittor: Thanks for yours of June 27, from Mendocino City-which is a curious place for you anyway\ I urondor if you had time between tides to notice the remarkable flora of the plain three or four miles inlani from Mendocino? Your Monopodia manuscript, with its extraordinary title, arrived duly, and is now before me. You made a great mistake in not having a child—either a boy or a girl vould do. I am sure either he or she would give you pointers about making up drawings for plates. I thought you had been e ditor long enoug^i to know that a folding plate was the 'abomination of desolation' spoken of by the prophet Daniel. If you don't, it is time you did. However, by means of a hatchet and a small board I have been able to chop off the drawings from the back- boards and have arwinged than so as to make respectable plates. One slight embarrassment I encountered was the fact that the last'figure on plate 1 bore the same number as the first figure on plate 2; in other words, there were two figure S's representing widely different subjects. I found also one or two blank references to figures, which I have filled in. In suah cases, any old number will do. I have sent the plates to the lithographer for reproduction, and if they are *^°"^ 1"^^^^"® yi^l g^i *^is paper out before I go to California. Before closing I wmt to congratulate you on that table of con- tents, and also on the r
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