3 — Mr. Walter Deane 



to them any notes that we have on the subject. Our oard index 

 to species with many cross references, and the almost complete 

 agrostological library here, as well as the types which are 

 indexed, would make it possible for a student to do some really 

 good work here. 



If you know any enthusiastic young student^ "looking for 

 trouble" in the way of real critical work in systematic botany, 

 please divert him into grasses. How that Dr. Hitchcook and I 

 have both passed the half century we are anxious to train 

 some conscientious younger people in agrostology. 



I should be delighted to have the photograph you speak 



of of the humming bird. Following your suggestion, I have 



put out tumblers of sweetened water on the posts outside the 



screened porch but I am not there during the day so I do not 



know whether the humcing birds come or not. I hope they do. 



I have seen them on Sundays drinking from the Phlox. My second 



nest of wrens is getting very noisy. So I suppose in a week 



more they will also leave the nest. The wren is almost my ideal 



of a family, but they ere not good members of society, at least 



those in my yard are not. The wren who M*s4 preempts the first 



nest will not allow any A wren to nest in the yard. I finally took 



out the second wren house and next year I shall put it up in 

 the front yard on the tulip tree. I hope the ye ung neighbor'o y 

 little wren will not object to thatl ^t>i^^x^^^-<^V 



Sincerely yours, 



