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Department of Botany The Botanical Gazette 



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first six weeks of the Summer Quarter I lectured here on Mori ays, Tuesdays 

 Wednesdays, and Thursdays, went ftp to Madison Thursday evening and spent, 

 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays there. During he last six weeks , 

 with the exception of two weeks in Ohio, partly at the meeting cf the 

 A.A.A.S.^I spent at the cottage. It ks a delightful place and we 

 thoroughly enjoyed the change from the city, 



Mrs. Barnes is very well these days and has been so for a 

 considerable time. Her last illness of any account was a severe attack 

 of the grip nearly a year ago. In one way and another, however, we 

 have been running a hospital at our house most of the time. The 

 middle of October I was attacked by diphtheria and Mrs. Davidson and 

 her youngest boy, eight years old were also down. Their cases were 

 quite light and mine quite severe. We all had anti-toxin and the 

 rest of the family were given an immunising dose. They escaped, 

 The necessary isolation for three weeks and the fumigation of the house 

 afterwards made it an experience not to be desired, although anti -toxin 

 has robbed the disease of its terrors. Mrs. Barnes was chief nurse, 

 although for a week we had a nurse from one of the hospitals. She stood 

 the strain very well, although it made very hard work. This is the 

 first time that I have been abed,'exeept for an attacH of the grip last- 

 spring, for about twenty years. My grip attack lasted only a. few days, 

 but this kept me in the bed for two weeks, and in the house for three. 



I air much interested in what you tell mr about Miss Horsford. 



I met kdlftonce when I was at Cambridge, but hatiU not heard before which 



of 



Miss Horsford it was. I knew Farlow' s engagement some weeks ago. 

 I was of course as/nuch surprised by it as any one well co; Id be. In 

 a recent letter I told him that he ought to have done this long ago! 

 He's been there, and she's been there ^loj these many years! 



I am delighted to hear that Mrs. DeanC/is so well. I long to QJUU- 



