SMiTHSOMlAN SNSTITUTION 



S, V. LANGLiST, Secretary 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



0. BEOWN GOODE, Assistant Sccrotory, 

 In charge of P. S. National Mu! 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Jaffrey.N.K. 



My dear Deane :- 



Your letters of recent date ha\^e both been re- 



ceived as well as one of much older date. I have been in the city 

 all summer hard at work and being short of help, letter v/riting of 

 all kinds has been neglected, 



I am glad you are pleased v;ith Roseanthus , and of course I am. 

 Faxton's plate is good and best of all is accurate. I thank you 

 very much for your kind words and I appreciate them very much com"' 

 ing from you. 



You will be pleased to hear that I am just now sending an 

 order to Mr. Faxon for 12 new plates to accompany a paper v/hich I am 

 almost ready to publish upon. I am very much encouraged by the 

 spirit in which my work and reconmiendat ions are received by the 

 authorities. 



Of course your plant is Angelica hirsuta . The calyx lobes 

 are small but hardly prominent , cert ainly not obsolete. Of course 



