5403 Keno Koad, /fl \\ UUJnfT 

 Washington, D.C. T~ — , 



Oct. 13, 192b 



Dear Mr. Deane, 



I enjoyed your letter of ^ay 16, but I did not get 

 around to answering It. As tne years go by I seem to be 

 burled ever deeper and deeper under tne tnings I plan to do 

 and fail to execute. 1 look forward to the time when I shall 

 be old and retired and have time to read ail the books I do 

 not get time to now. It must be really delightful. 



I think that Jfrof. hill and 1 first found rsilocarya 

 in the Dune region, but it was in %$ 1897, first, I tnink. 

 The dunes seemed to be Inexhaustible in those days. 



A herbarium of 40,00u sheets is an enormous one for 

 a private house. I gave mine to the University of Illinois 

 in 1909 when (excluding grasses, wnich I gave to the Grass 

 Herbarium) it numbered 10,000 sheets, i couldn't pay rent 

 for space to house it, and I found so much to do in grasses 

 I realized i would never use the general herbarium again, and 

 I wanted it used. I recall tnat Dr. Mliispaugh told me of 

 the great detail in your herbarium. He said that you had 

 seedlings or a great many species. It impressed me, because 

 I had been collecting seedlings myself. 



before and after the Ithaca Congress we enjoyed 

 visitors from abroad ror a few days. Dr. Briquet, director 

 of tne Botanic harden, Geneva, was nere. livery American 

 botanist who goes to Europe has things to look up in the 

 Deiessert Herbarium (in the Bot. harden) and has to thank Dr. 

 Briquet for many courtesies. We were so very glad to have him 

 here. The weather was very hot--and of course he was not 



