Creator
Bayley Balfour
Recipient
Mr. Douglas
Transcription
May 30, 1908.
Dear Mr. Douglas:
The investigation of Mr. Muir's Arizona fossils is now nearing completion, and I hope ere very long to be able to furnish Mr. Muir with a story about them. The immediate object of this letter is, however, to ask you if you could obtain from Mr. Muir another specimen of the one he sent under the number 3. The plant to which it belongs is different from anything hitherto described and will be specially described from the material supplied, but there are some points that do not come out quite clearly in the specimen examined, and as Mr. Muir mentioned in his letter that he had duplicates of the specimens transmitted to us through you, we should like very much to have the other portion of No. 3 for the purpose of following up points that are still obscure. Could you get this for us? We should be greatly gratified if you could.
As I said to you before, the whole collection is an interesting one. The specific identification of much of the material is not possible, but the features the woods show are a useful addition to our knowledge.
Believe me to be,
Yours,
Bayley Balfour
06251
Location
[Edinburgh, Scotland]
Date Original
1908 May 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 18.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Balfour, Bayley, "Letter from Bayley Balfour to Mr. Douglas, 1908 May 30." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5440.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5440
Resource Identifier
muir17_0631-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0631
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
