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EDITORS: 



October 9. 1890. 



My dear Deane : 



You are naturally curious I suppose to know what has become 

 of my scheme as to coming to Cambridge, and I will take the first op- 

 portunity since the matter has been settled to enlighten you. 



Not very much was done in the way of correspondence as I soon 

 learned that Watson was going to do the unprecedented thing of coming 



to the meeting of the AAAS at Indianapolis. Inhere fore deferred all 



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until I could talk with him face to face. On the Saturday excursion w 

 we had a chance to converse on the subject; a little more on the Mon- 

 day excursion for the botanists and still more at Coulter's home at 

 Crawford svi 1 le , whither we both v/ent for a couple of days after the 

 meeting. 



The slight hitch in the arrangements was in the matter of money. 

 I could not just see how it was going to be possible for me to live in 



Cambridge on the salary proposed , which all this you understand is 



STRICTLY confidential- --was equal to that which Watson now receives. 

 We therefore concluded to make a definite arrangement for the present 

 year only and 1 t the future be decided by the future. I have been 

 granted leave of absence for the third term f «kete commences March 28. 

 I wil at once come to Cambridge and remain at least until the follow- 

 ing September. I expect that during the summer we shall come to a 



