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EDITORS: 



February 18.18 90. 



My dear Deane:-- 



Your various notes have cccie(o hand in due time and sequence 

 and I have gladly spared the minute or* two that it took to read then. 

 Instead of rejoicing as you intimate that they are on small paper and 

 will take but a minute to read I regret that you do not use larger 

 sheets . 



I have received also the printed slip with the names of the bo tan 

 ists in the picture, fcr which you have my thanks. I have attached it 

 to my picture which is now framed and hanging in t he library almost 

 over my desk. Did I understand you that Bailey had it printed ? 



I suppose it is to Bailey's ill health that I owe my immunity 

 up to the present f rom an editorial slashing. When the Gazette notic- 

 ed lis bulletin on seed sprouting it had occasion to "rough" him a 

 little on his slapdash style 01 work and publication. It inspired 

 B.xxik to write a letter to Coulter which expressed his amusement(?) 

 at the ignorance etc. etc. of the critic. Coulter sent the letter to 

 me and I replied to it; whereupon B. wrote a pleasant reply at the 

 close of which he promised me an editorial roasting at an early day. 

 I have kept watch of the American Garden but have seen nothing about 

 the natter we differed on, so that I suppose he has been 1 00 weak to 

 hit back. 



I sent to the printer the other day my MSS.key to the species 

 of N.A.mosses — about 120 pp. like thisj not type -written however. I 

 do not know how soon I shall have it , but before very long I hope. I 

 hope that it will prove usable and correct; but I tremble fcr it. 

 How ever, the die is cast. 



Which reminds me of a bryological question that I want you to 

 answer for me. Will you look in Flora , lvi( 1873) about p.482 ; and in 

 vol . lviii ( 1875) about p. 90 at tv/o papers of Mailer on North. .American 

 mosses and make me a list of the new species he there describes ? 

 If in the same papers he gives any extended remarks on synonymy or dis- 

 tribution I should like to know it, though I don't care for a list of 

 the species. I want to get at the general character of the papers. 



Mary is beginning to feel like herself again after the influenza, 

 which, while it kept her in berf^three days, has bequeathed a persistent 

 malai se . Up to the time of this attack her general health had been 

 improving. Her eyes still permit her to read and sew but little. 



She joins me in kindest regards to both yourself and Mrs. Deane. 



