EDITORS: 



June 27.1389. 



My dear Dearie :-- 



Well, I have been remiss, this tine, haven't I ? Looking back 

 over your letters I discover 5 since I wrote you a decent one. No 

 one will be able to say that you are not long suffering and patient 

 with the derelict. If you know me as well as perhaps you think you 

 do. you will know that -here has been no deliberate intention to put 

 aside the correspondence , but only (bad enough, in all conscience) a 

 frequent postponement of a thing that was not pressing for one that 

 was. I shall try not to be so slow hereafter. 



Let me answer your question about the plant before I forget it. 

 (This is the plant that Farwell sent you — has it been so long that 

 you have forgotten it ?) It IS a moss---Fontinalis antipyretica,var. 

 gigantea,Sulliv. It is of no especial interest, for it is quite com- 

 mon in just such situations as the collector found it in. His de- 

 scription of the shape of the leaves while in the water is especially 

 good. 



Every thing has moved along here for the past 6 months about as 

 quietly as possible. The only excitement came just a few weeks before 

 Commencement in the form of a college escapade of more than usual a- 

 trocity. One of the girls 7 " fraternities' 1 (they are so called here) 

 was entertaining their national convention. A reception was in prog- 

 ress at Library Hall when red pepper began to fill the air. After a 



