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must be at least 2 inches dia the illegible illegible are finely sharply dissected. Mrs Carr, I find has carried off all the
specimens I brought down to camp, also all of the seed . I will write her to send you one. I will gather your seeds, Abis
illegible Torreya Had a glorious six weeks of free mountainanity with Carr Kellogg they botanizing, I glacerizing Had one
lovely scramble of fourteen days among the black jagged peaks at the head of the Merced Tuolumne San Joaquin Rivers, bagged
thirty four active glaciers, Dr Kellog I are about to set out for the region about the heads of the South Fork of the San
Joaquin Kings Kern Rivers. I pushing back among the glaciers that I know are there, K botanizing on lower ground we separating
a week or so at a time . From head of Kern R we will cross over to Owens River Valley thence along north past Mono to Lake
Tahoe yet northward untill snow falls. Thanks for biography of Sullivant, Farewell I hear the mtns calling. Ever cordially
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