Botanical Qa^effe. 



EDITORS: 



PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LAFAYETTE, IND. 1^1^61^ gt . , /A &GlI 6011 , W IS. 



October 21. 1392. 



My dear Dearie:-- 



You have been shamefully neglected ,as,alas.you have been be- 

 fore; only this time I am not going- to offer any explanation, beyond 

 saying that it has been the old, old story of procrastination. You 

 have been the friend who could be put off till the next time, and so 

 you have been. 



Your first postal came to me while I was at Rochester at the meet 

 lag of the AAAS. I really had some hopes of seeing you there ,but you 

 disappointed me. I want to tell you not that if you do not come to 

 the great meeting next year at Madison I shall be obliged to drop you 

 from my acquaintance. Seriously , you must begin to plan for it even 

 now. We hope to have a cottage on our lake lot by next summer, and to 

 spend a good part of the summer camping there. If that plan material- 

 izes we shall expect to have you and Mrs.Deane with us for a time. 

 Then - ou can run down to the World's Fair, and come back for the meeti- 

 ing of the Association. We are really going to have a big meeting 

 botanically speaking and you will miss it if you don't come. 



We had a fine meeting at Rochester and did a good deal of im- 

 portant business. What we did in the matter of nomenclature is not in 

 line exactly with Cambridge precedents but I believe that it is in 

 line with the best practice of the botanists of the world (except Kew 



