UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



TAXONOMIC AND RANGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Washington, D. 0. , 



March 6, 1913. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster St 



9 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Dear Sir: — 



Your letter of March 4 has been received. I am ashamed 

 of myself for not recognizing that specimen of P. clandestine 

 and especially for saying it was the typical form of P. com- 

 mutatum. The type of P. commutatum is a large plant but Mr. 

 Batchelder's specimen is not the same, though it is not typical 

 P. eland est inum. 



I am pained that you should "wish me further". I was 

 in the suffrage parade together with the majority of women on 

 the scientific staff and with Dr. "rwin Smith and another man. 

 lo doubt sixty years ago many peox>le wished the abolitionists 

 were farther away. On the whole 1 think the parade demonstrated 

 more than we had hoped, even. 



Professor Hitchcock sends thanks for your kind regards. 

 He is improving steadily and I trust will soon bo entirely well 

 again. I had a letter from Mr. Haibbard yesterday and was very 

 glad to learn he was well again* 



Yours respectfully, 



Scientific Assistant; in Systematic Agrostology. 



