Printed letter from Ove Paulsen, 'Musei-inspector' (Danish botanist) to the Botanical Department of the University of Birmingham. The letter comes from 'Universitetets botaniske Museum, Kobenhavn', which is printed in the top left corner. The letter, following the death of Professor G. S. West, asks to return a collection of central-asiastic algae to Paulsen which had been borrowed to West for determination. Speaks of what the collection contains. Encloses a list of numbers and localities.