UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D . C . , October 11, 1911. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster St • , 

 G amb ridge, Mas s . 

 Dear Sir: — 



Your interesting letter of October 9 received. I shall 

 be glad to examine the grasses you mention, returning those 

 specified. 



-rof. Hitchcock is in the tropics, collecting and study- 

 ing the grasses of Panama, Costa Rica, Gu-temala and so far as time 

 permits visiting Honduras and Nicaragua. Among the fine collections 

 already received from him are some not before found in Horth America. 

 I have not been in the field this summer except for a short trip to 

 Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp. The result was small so far as 

 grasses were concerned, though I secured both our native bamboos in 

 bloom, but as an outing it was mest delightful. 



Yours sincerely, 



Assistant in Systematic Agrostology. 



