UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
ECONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 
November 6, 1924 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
29 Brewster St., 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Deane: 
I have your letter of November 3rd and I see that my 
diagnosis of the case is correct. Mrs. Chase advanced, the 
money herself for your payment and sent on to Professor Hackel 
a receipt in your name. Y.hen he returned this she sent it on 
to you: for redemption. Her letter, however, was not sufficiently 
explicit. You took this receipt to be for money that you had 
already paid. Your records will probably show, however, that 
you have not paid this. I take it from your letter that you are 
still willing to contribute and so I am explaining how a misunder¬ 
standing came about. 1 told Mrs. Chase that 1 thought she was 
hot doing a very business like thing in advancing the money. 
It would be better to collect the money in advance send the 
money, and then deliver the receipt. I am returning Mrs. Chase's 
letters. 
Sincere; 
A. 3. Hitchcock, Botanist in Charge of 
Systematic Agrostology, Bureau of 
Plant Industry. 
Office address: Smithsonian Institution. 
