Department of Botany 



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The Botanical Gazette 



gifts. Although the fracture is a simple one, it necessitates a good 

 deal of suffering for the first few days. She will have a plaster cast 

 on it by Sunday and will then be able to hobble about. 



Another distraction has been the meeting h£re of a group of 

 naturalists who are about to form a westers branch of the American 

 Society of Naturalists . I have felt it necessary to be at the meetings 

 and to do what I could to make the guests of the University at home. 

 The absence of Dr. Coulter since July first h*s thrown all the adminis- 

 trative work of the Department upon me^as well as the giving of one of 

 his courses, so that I have had much more to do than usual this year. 

 Thet ; together with the organization of the n<« laboratory^has kept 

 me so busy that T have had no time for research work, and very little 

 for play, Dr. Coulter will return April first, although he is entitled 

 to three months further absence. He and Rose are working over the 

 Umbellif erpe againywai Hie has also in hand a college book on the 

 morphology of the seed plants and has published during 1399 his Plant 

 Relations and Plant Structures, tWO tests in the Twentieth century 

 Series of the Appletonjs. 



The photographs which I sent you we-e all taken at (< Oakledge" 

 our Summer cottage at Madison. It is about three miles and a h/|a/f 

 from the town on the south shore of the lake in a patch of oak woods. 

 The shore of the lake there is a rocky bluff about twanty feet high. 

 The picture marked "along the shore east',' ■ shows this;bluff in front of 



our cottage. That picture is taken from the tid \ uui about a hundred 



yards from Oakledge. "The borne- I left behind me" is the bouse at Madison, 

 GIG Lake Street. I sincerely wish it were 5733 Monroe Ave .1 Some of 

 the pictures were taken by Lyle, some by Mrs. Barnes, and most of them 

 by me. All of 'hem weee taken last summer. The family left here 



early in June and did not return until late in fifiicifc?" n . 



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