SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



May 6, 1915 . 



Mr . Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts . 

 Dear Mr. Deane j 



I have your letter of May 1 after an absence of 

 two days from the Museum, and am very glad indeed to 

 know of your safe return to your home . The package 

 of plants which you have "been good enough to lay 

 aside for the National Museum and send to us so prompt- 

 ly has been received, ana will, I am sure, he of the 

 greatest interest and value, not only because of our 

 very great need of New England specimens hut also from 

 the quality of your own duplicates. I shall certainly 

 go over the plants at the very first opportunity. In 

 accordance with your wishes, they will be accessioned 

 as a gift. 



I shall certainly give your regards to Mr. Standley 

 who is absent today on a local collecting trip. We shall 

 both he very glad to have the additional material which 

 you propose to so kindly collect during the coming summer. 



With sincere hest wishes to yourself and Mrs. Deane, 



I am, 



Yours very truly, 



Associate Curator . 



