5403 xieno Road, 

 Washington, D. G. 



July 24, 1924 



Dear Mr. Dearie, 



Please excuse my delay in answering your letter of July2. 

 I should have explained that I sent the |5 to Prof. Hacked on your 

 pledge of $£ a year. There heing eighteen to give the turn of 

 each is a year and a half apart. I am sending the money to Prof. 

 Hackel for the different givers and then send them the receipt 

 as my voucher, when they can reimburse me. Perhaps that is not a 

 very businesslike way to do business, but it simplifies things, 

 lou sent the first $5 the fall of 1924. This will be your second, 



I am glad the ^ational herbarium and the grasses are in 

 Washington instead of in Hew %mpshire. Nights at 33° would make 

 me want to run away. The hotter it is the better I like it--I am 

 the only happy person around the herbarium on the bailing hot 

 days- -but I am the most miserable one in winter time. 



IhAse Cactus volumes are beautiful, aren't they? I am glad 

 you have a set. I have seen them in the library. 



Dr. Pease's Plora of Coos County ought to be very valuable. 

 Where is he located now? He was at Univ. of Illinois for a time, 

 I think. I have been working steadily on Paspalum lately. The 

 drawings take much time, bjtt I do not agree with Dr. Greene , who 

 said that a real botanist did not need illustrations, his descrip- 

 tions were sufficient-s-or else I'm not a real botanist. I try to 

 give as accurate a description as possible and then as accurate a 

 drawing as I can. I think if others had done that there would 

 have been less confusion about species the last hundred and fifty 

 years. 



Prof. Hitchcock said to send his best wishes when I wrote. 



