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LETTER No. 42.
Specimens received since last report. My best thanks are due to
those who continue to favor me with specimens, as it is only by study
and handling of abundant material that anything approximating the truth
can be learned. Some of these specimens were received by me some
time ago and should have been acknowledged in last letter, but were omitted
through misplacement of the copy.
Where we have made notes on the specimens, we have lettered the
contributors a, b, c, etc., for convenience in future reference to these
notes. We are receiving so many specimens now for determination, that
we have very little time for other work, and hence we have done but little
other publishing during the past few months. In our printed letters we
do not give authorities for names, believing that a binomial should repre-
sent a plant's name; but in acknowledging the specimens to our corre-
spondents we usually give the names of the authority in event they desire
to use this information. All specimens received are usually acknowledged
by private letter soon after they come into our hands.
Heretofore it has been our policy to indicate the unnamed specimens
received from correspondents with the hope that they would publish them.
Very few have complied. There has been in the past so much farcical
work done in the way of so-called "new species" that we have preferred
to not engage in the work to any extent, but so many unnamed specimens
have accumulated in the museum that it is embarrassing to preserve them
without names. In the future we intend to publish and name such
specimens as come to us in the sections in which we have thoroughly worked
up the old species, namely, the Stipitate Polyporoids and the Gasteromycetes.
If we stop to name every specimen which is received which we do not
recognize, in keeping with the usual custom in these matters, Saccardo
would have to hire an extra clerk in order to compile them. We should
much prefer to leave unnamed all specimens except those belonging to the
sections in which we feel we have a competent knowledge of the old
species.
Please note my recent change of address to England, which is now,
C. G.
(U. S. Address:
LLOYD,
c
224 W. Court St.,
/ Mr ' S " A " Skan '
37 Holmes Road,
Cincinnati, Ohio.)
October 1, 1912. Twickenham, England.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
AT LOS ANGELES
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