UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D . C . , 



April 11, 1911. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster St . , 



Cambridge , Mass . 



Dear Sir: 



Your favor of April 3 received some days ago. We were interested 

 in your notes on Panicum of the Manual region, and I've no doubt a good 

 many others are, especially those who do not have the revision. Thank 

 you for your kind offer to send me extra copies, but I take Rhodora and 

 this time I received three extra copies . 



suggestion. Hefhas just discovered what I learned years ago, that it 

 is not necessary to be an artist in order to make botanical illustra- 

 tions, and he is so happy over his new found ability that he wanted 

 me to tell others how to do likewise. 



I have just sent another article to Rhodora at Mr. Bartlett's 



Yours respectfully, 



Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



