Botanical Qa^effe. 



E D ITOB S : 



™"° UE """'^•^ !«■>■ Office of Publication, 



Madison, Wis. 



October 16.1894. 



My dear Deane:-- 



I have your letter of the 7th inquiring about the publication 

 of a notice of Bailey's Note Book. Generally the notices of books 

 published in the Gazette are written by the editors, and on all cases 

 when this is not so, they are signed by the author. I wonder that B. 

 has not sent the Gazette a copy of his book, as he is quite aware of 

 its existence and standing. I believe that all the notices which have 

 been written by others than the editors have been about books which 

 it could hardly be expected the editors should receive, but I cannot 

 say positively. However we should be glad to be relieved of the 

 work of preparing a notice in this case, and if you will kindly send 

 rae a copy, or ask Bailey to do so, we shall gladly take your MS. If you 

 send yours of course I should return it. 



I do not know whether you know or not that we have been building 

 a new house this summer; we have just moved into it, and are settled 

 enough to live comfortably. But it is not completed yet, since two 

 mantels and the book cases are yet to be set. The mantels I designed 

 my self, and as I was rather slow in placing the order they were not 

 done as soon as they oght to have been. I wish you could visit us m 

 our own home, an. we will hope that you may. If Mrs. Deane is able to 



