5403 Reno Road, 

 Washington, D. G. 



Nov. 8, 1925 



Mr. Walter Deane, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Mr. Deane, 



Thank you for the check for 05 for Prof. Hackel. 

 I do not want anyone to send the monthly gift in advance. 

 I send the money to reach Prof. H aC kel by the first of the 

 month or before. I used to type receipts for him to sign and 

 return, but since I returned from Brazil I neglected to do 

 that, and 05 wondered if it were really necessary, anyway. 

 All have had his signature at least twice. The plan was for 

 me to send the money and thep be reimbursed by the different 

 friends. I have had several letters from him this year. In 

 Brazil I collected so many of his species, and so many things 

 I knew would be of interest to him that I wrote hurried letters 

 to him several times. He has not had his herbarium since 

 1917, yet he seems tto remember so many species inndetail. The 

 habit of many species was a surprise to me--great grasses two 

 or three meters tall we have known from mere fragments. One 

 of H a ckel» s Paspalums I found climbing a tree, more than three 

 meters tall and wldly branching. I saw the type, which was 

 apparently a simple plant I'd guess to be about three feet tall,- 

 it was only a little fragment of one branch. Some of my speci- 

 menfi take three or four sheets for a single plant. After presses 

 full of such things it was a relief to get up at high altitudes 

 and get plants of reasonable size again. I was surprised to 

 find so many grasses to be vines. Some of them reminded j^/me 

 of the yam I uaed to untangle fQr ^ grantaother ._ but 



