2 Walter r>ea ne . 



flov/er and fe rtilizati on . This autumn he has asked me to write the 

 article on T eratolo gy, and T am now getting ready for that. T am also 

 interested in the revision of the International Cyclopedia and have been 

 doing some preliminary work on that. The whole subject of botany is 



in charge of the department here and we are dividing it up among our 

 men. "Of course I shall have the physiological topics. Just as soon 

 as possible I am going to get out a physiological text , something after 

 the scope of J.H.Green's book^** just issued. It will traverse rather 

 different lines , however. This represents about the extent of outside 

 work which I have been able to do this year. 



On the first of July I was appointed one of the deans and 

 have charge of the granting of advanced standing to students who come 

 from other colleges^and the valuation of the work of graduate students 

 who are candidates' for "a second degree. Being rather new to this admin- 

 istrative work, it has ta.ven a good deal of time. It gives me, however, 

 some additional compensation ftnflj exjo '' ficio , me are more prominence 

 in the various faculties. 



We spent our summer at Madison as usual, that is to say the 

 re-t of the family did. Mrs. Barnes and her sister , with the children 

 were tfefcr* from about the meddle of June. Between the first of July 

 and middle of August, I went up on Thursday nights and spent Friday, Sat- 

 urday and Sunday with them. After the middle "of August, I was there 

 continuously until we returned late in September. We find our summer 

 place as delightful as usual and it is always a pleasure to get back 

 to Madison among old frlends^of which we have many there. 



Our recent Christmas gift from Mr. Rockefeller will redound 

 decidedly to th«/bo 4 "ani cal department ^as it provides for the erection 

 of a press building ^which will rid us of our tenants-at-will, the Press 

 Division, who occupy one of our btst laboratories and pretty much all 

 of the basement for storage. As the new funs also provide for the 

 improvement of the ^TOtUK^i t will enable us to finish our pond in the C0tOtt~ 



