UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIO BOTANY 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
November 1, 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
29 Brewster St., 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Deanes 
On October 28th Mrs. Chase sailed for Brazil ‘where she 
will collect grasses for several months. She left her business 
affairs in my hands during her absence. Among these is her work in 
contributing to Dr. S. Hackel of Attersee, Austria. She has a schedule of 
contributors, one for each ftionth of the year at Five Dollars from each. 
I note that you are assigned to July. There is an annotation that you 
have not contributed for this month. I am therefore writing to call 
you® attention to this but I would not wish it to be understood as 
bringing pressure to bear, as, of course, these contributions are entirely 
voluntary. It is possible that there is some error in th;: record or it 
may be that you prefer to discontinue the contributions. Some of 
us will probably continue our contributions Indefinitely, but all m^r 
not wigh to do this. 
Mrs. Chase's plan has been to send the money herself for each 
contributor and inclose a receipt when the signed receipt has returned. 
She presents this to the contributor for that month for reimbursement. 
It is possible that she has sent this to„_you and you took it to be a 
receipt for money already paid. 
I have felt much sympathy for Dr. H.ckel, because of the good work 
he has done for agrostology and because now he is left in his old age with 
scarcely a bare living. He is also suffering much from sickness which is 
probably due in part to his privations. 
3 inc » T«o 1 ir wmi t-« 
A. S. Hitchcock, Botanist in Charge 
of Systematic Agrostology, Bureau of 
Plant Industry. 
Office address: Smithsonian Institution. 
