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Department of Botany The Botanical Gazette 



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planning to put nix houses f cing on one street and two on another, 



leaving the rear yards as a common garden, which we hope to make 



attractive. The group is one rather divpsified in interest, which I 



think will make it all the pleasanter; one is a physician, one is a 



lawyer, one an astronomer, one a mathematician one a philosopher, 



two philologists (French and Latin), and your humble servant a botanist. 



If you come out next October, therefore, you will find us, we hope, 



in our o wn houseyand nothing would delight us so much as to see you and 



ffllrs. Deane. Apropos of all this, p lease correct your mailing 11 st y and 

 address me^at 



the University of Chicago until that new house gives us a fljcity that 

 •e have not had heretofore. 



Just now we are occupying a furnished flat; some acquaintances 

 wished to go to California for four months and as we were boarding we 

 embraced the opportunity to have our own household once more. 



Mrs. Barnes has been very well during the past year. Lyle, 

 whom I think you never saw, is going away to school in January. He 

 has done a little over a year's work here and so will enter the second 

 year':, -^ork at Culver Military Academy. This is about 80 miles from 

 Chicago and is said to be the best military school in the country. 

 He is a particularly eedles3 and CXLtdLuM chap and I am looking to the 

 military fcpiyjMuftg to straighten out that side of his training in a way 

 that we have not bee" able to do. He is a little over 1G^ and is over 

 5feet 11 inches, in which you see he somewhat resembles his dad. 



Botanical work goes along quietly. Coulter has been away for 

 nine months and I have had a good deal of extra work on that account, 

 but my chief burden nowaday 3 is administrative duties in connection with 

 a deanship in the colleges. J shall have to gi^e it up I fear, as I 

 3ee no prospect of redaction of work. 



