5405 Reno Road, 

 Washington, D. 0. 



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h August 21, 1924 



TJr . Wal t er Lean e , 

 Sherburne, Mass? IT. H. 



Dear Mr. Deane, 



I enjoyed your interesting letter. Washington politics 



are pretty dreadful, hut its weather is delightful, though I am 



ah out the only person who thinks sol 



I shall he glad to see the Plora of Coos County. It has 



Dept. Agriculture 

 not yet appeared in the list from the/library of new hooks. I.Ir. 



Bartlett said years ago that Dr. Pease was prohahly the greatest 



authority on Jerome in the country. 



Evidently I did not write very clearly in my last letter 

 concerning the arrangement for |rof. Hackel. You asked if you 

 owed me for the five dollars I sent in your name, and I meant 

 to say you did, that is, if yop: wish to make this gift a second 

 year. Instead of getting the money from the donors in advance, 

 as I did the first year, I have heen sending the money myself, 

 and then have heen reimbursed hy the different donors when I send 

 them Prof, ^ackel's receipt for the money. 



Your friend, Judge Churchill was here two weeks ago, with 

 his wife and daughter, though he did not stay long. '.That an in- 

 teresting man he is, and how vigorous I 



Dr. Stapf , of Kew herbarium, is coming to "ashington next 

 week. He will he the guest of Prof. Hitchcock. I am trying to 

 get our crowded herbarium cleaned up, so that it will not look 

 too had to one used to roomy Kew. The herbarium itself is kept 

 in order here, hut we have no space for storage, hut open shelves 

 in the office I occupy, so that when there are a large number 



