BOTANICAL  LABORATORIES  —  HARVARD  UNIVERSITY 
ROLAND  THAXTER,  Prof.  Crypt.  Bot.,  Emeritus 
Farlow  Herbarium 
B.  L.  ROBINSON,  Asa  Gray  Prof.  Syst.  Bot. 
Gray  Herbarium 
E.  C.  JEFFREY,  Prof.  Plant  Morph. 
University  Museum 
M.  L.  FERNALD,  Fisher  Prof.  Nat.  Hist.  (Syst.  and 
Geogr.  Bot.) 
Gray  Herbarium 
OAKES  AMES,  Prof.  Bot.  (Gen.  and  Econ.) 
University  Museum 
E.  M.  EAST,  Prof.  Genetics 
Bussey  Inst.,  Forest  Hills,  Mass. 
W.  H.  WESTON,  Jr.,  Assoc.  Prof.  Bot.  (Crypt.) 
Farlow  Herbarium 
C.  W.  DODGE,  Curator,  Farlow  Herb,  and  Libr.  (Crypt.) 
Farlow  Herbarium 
R.  H.  WETMORE,  Asst.  Prof.  Bot.  (Gen.  and  Morph.) 
University  Museum 
Cambridge Massachusetts ,  U.  S.  A. 
Toy .  SO,  1928. 
Dear  Deane: 
I  want  to  express  to  you  personally,  as  the  new  Editor- 
in-Chief  of  Rhodora,  my  great  appreciation  of  your  generosity  to  the 
Rhodora  Guarantee  Fund.  If  several  members  come  forward  as  nobly 
as  you  have  done  there  will  be  no  question  about  our  ability  to  keep 
Rhodora  going  in  as  good  form  as  in  the  past. 
I  have  just  received  from  the  printers  an  agreement  for  the  contin¬ 
uation  of  Rhodora  under  the  new  management  which  is  favorable,  and  all 
of  us  who  are  giving  our  time  to  the  enterprise  naturally  appreciate 
the  support  of  the  members  of  the  Club  who  are  interested.  I  may  say,, 
that  your  check  is  much  larger  than  any  of  us  should  have  felt  justi¬ 
fied  in  expecting,  and  as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  as  large  as  that  of 
Kidder;  so  I  suppose  that  from  now  on  we  can  look  upon  you  as  in  the 
same  financial  group! 
I  am  using  a  comparatively  new  letter-head,  since  I  think  you  have 
never  seen  it,  but  the  next  time  I  write  you  in  regard  to  Rhodora 
matters,  it  will  probably  be  on  special  Rhodora  paper,  since  one  of  the 
innovations  is  going  to  be  to  have  a  special  letter-head  so  as  not  to 
confuse  Rhodora  matters  too  mueh  with  University  business. 
The  new  Rhodora  board  is  organized  and  you  may  be  interested  to  have 
the  list  which  I  shall  report  next  Friday  eveving;  besides  myself, 
J.  F.  Collins,  Weatherby,  Gri scorn  and  Dodge,  with  Gri scorn  taking 
