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Botanical ©alette. 



EDITORS: 



71a Z^angdon §1., /A&dison, Wis. 



Apr. 10, 1893. 



My dear Dean&- — 



Your two letters, as usual, have gone unanswered for a 



long time. I am always glad to hear from you, and I would write more 



promptly if I did not have so many other letters, that e- oulri - not be 

 put off, to attend to. I have been practically forced into taking up 

 the arrangements for the coming meeting here of the A. A. A. S. I am 

 the Local Secretary, and have a good deal of the executive work to do. 

 That, with the Gazette, University, and church duties, is going to 

 keep me swamped for another three months. 



I suppose you are coming out this way sometime during the summer. 

 I hope very much that Mrs. Deanewill be able to travel, and if you do 

 come this way, we shall anticipate having both of you visit with us, 

 but even if she is not able to cane, certainly you will oreak away this 

 time an: see not only the Fair but the A.A.A.S. You know we are going 

 to try to have a big Botanical Congress, or at least an important one, 

 and I am sure you will never have an opportunity again to meet so many 

 botanists as you will have this summer; but I think we planned out all 

 of this sometime ago, and if I mistake not I have your consent to come. 



My wife continues to improve in health, and is about to start to 

 make a visit at her home. He father's health is not good; indeed he 



Ga,tA 



