UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D. C, 



February lQ f 1912. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster St . , 



Cambridge , Mass . 



Dear Sir: — 



Your letter of the 7th received. I shall he glad to 

 examine the specimens you refer to. The specimens received 

 diiring the past year are now in the hand of the mounter. Your 

 Shelburne Eestuca must he among them for I cannot now find it in 

 the herbarium. Gould you send your specimen of this to he returned 

 together with those of the uncertain P. lucidum? Prof. Hitchcock 

 will pass judgment iipon them this time. 



I enjoyed a three week's visit from Miss Lillian Eaton, the 

 Maine botanist, this winter. She was somewhat disappointed because 

 almost none of the lew England botanists attended the Association 

 meetings. I think myself that the "Yankees" rather snubbed 

 Washington this year. 



Mr. Hubbard writes that he expects to visit Washington this 

 spring and do some work in the herbarium here. It is encouraging 

 to- know there is a young man preparing to specialize on grasses. 



Please accept thanks for your kind Christmas wishes, I fear 

 I did not acknowledge your card. 



Yours 



Scientif^ Assistant in Systematic Agrostol- 

 ogy. 



