Botanical Qa^ette. 



EDITORS: 



PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LAFAYETTE, IND. flS X^^d-On gl , /A 18011 , W 1 5- 



January 5.1092. 



My dear Deane:-- 



I embrace the first opportunity of the vacation to acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of the book of Garner's on the speech of monkeys , and 

 to thank you for the remembrance. I am particularly clad to have this 

 book as it is one in which I am much interested from the accounts that 

 I have read of his experimentation, and I shall take a great deal of 

 pleasure in reading it. 



All last week was devoted to the state examination of teachers fs> 

 certificates. Monday I went down to Chicago. I shall iifVe the later 

 days of this week to rest by catching up with correspondence which 

 was entirely put aside last week. 



I wish that you had been out here on the 26th. It would have 

 given us much pleasure. A large number of our friends hcnored us with 

 their presence on the occasion and seemed to enjoy themselves. A [rood 

 many others were out of the city or had their own family reunions, so 

 that the list of "regrets" was large. A houseful o: relatives also 

 helped to make the week more or less festive , though I had little time 

 after Monday to see anything of them. 



Mary considers herself entirely well now. She has been through 

 several rather try ing" sieges" of either work or play, that a few motths 



