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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



S. p. LANGLEY, Secretary 

 G. RROWN GOODE, issistantSei 

 in charge of U. S.Natii 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



( /fmrnnam^p . G . , Jan . 26 , 189 7 . 



Mr Walter Deane, 



Cambridge ,Mass . 

 My dear Mr. Deane: - 



Your kind note was duly received and I shall 

 try to answer it very soon. I wish to call your attention to sev- 

 eral government publications in which you will be very much inter- 

 ested and if you have not received them I will be pleased to try 

 and get them for you. The 1st. is the Report of the U.S. National 

 Museum for 1894, 2d. a Cotton Bulletin by the Department of Agriculture 

 3d. a list of the Trees of the United States, by Mr. George B.Sud- 

 worth, 4th. The Russian Fur Seal Islands, by Dr . St e j nsge r . The lat- 

 ter contains an interesting picture of Heracleum i.ngj..^ as well a 

 as a short account of the Flora of these islands. 



Yours very truly, 



Assistant Curator, 



Department of Botany. 



