?Hmteb States Courts, 

 ponton. 



C&amberS ot 



fames S. Eoioell, 



©istrtct 3 ut>se. January E6, 1935. 



Dear Mr. Deane : 



You may remember a ©hubby, not to say fat, boy to whom 

 you taught botany at Hopkinson'^chool forty years ago. This 

 boy is now writing you. I have mot forgotten entirely the 

 lessons you taught me , and I remember that at that time I 

 found a specimen of cares monile . Your instructions have been 

 of great benefit to me lately. I have been to Hassau twice, 

 and have become much interested in the sub- tropical plants 

 there. I am writing to you to see if you can suggest some way 

 I ©an press some of these flowers and bring them home. I 

 should not of course want to make too scientific a collection, 

 nor should I want to carry along a complicated piece of 

 apparatus. If, hoover, you know of some simple of 

 preserving flowers fairly well by drying, I wish you would 

 let me know. 



Yours sincerely^ 



Mr. Walter Deane, 

 29 Brewster Street, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



