UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 

 WASHINGTON 



D SYSTEMATIC BOTANY JUly 16, 19 SI . 



Mr. Walter Deane, 

 3?hilbrook Farm, 



Shelburne , New Hampshire • 



Dear Sir: 



I have your letter of July 18th with the specimen 

 of Danthonia . 



This is Danthonia eompressa. I found this on my one 



visit to Maine. 



Dr. Hitchcock left the first of May for the Orient 



to study bamboos. He will "be gone until the last of the 



year. We heard from him from Manila a few days ago. He 



spent about a month in the Philippines and is probably 



now in Japan. He expects to vj ?it southern China and Indo 



China. Mrs. Hitchcock accompanied him. With this trip 



Dr. Hitchcock will nearly have circumnavigated the Globe. 



I think his farthest east was St. Petersburg. 



Mr. M axon ha S j UB -fc left for a vacation with his 



wife and interesting little daughter in northern lew York. 



Little Mary recnntly collected some "sea weed" and sent it 

 down to her father. It was the pink roots of some water 

 plant. I hope you will enjoy you summer. 



Very truly yo^rs, 



Acting Systematic Agrostologist 



