SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



S. p. LANGL£Y, Secretary 



ia charge of tJ. S. National Muse 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



^tm/m^/i^M;^ . C . , Mar ch 8,1897. 



Mr.lValter Deane, 



Cambridf^e ,iMass . 

 My dear Mr. Deane :- 



Your kind letter was duly received. I have 



been so very busy that T have scarcely had time for letters, in fact 

 put 



I have not been able to/^ray MS. in shape which T prepared in Cainbrid^-e 

 last fall. so ycu see there is no need of my going back there 

 for the present at least. 



I will have a note with an illustration of Agava attenuata in 

 an early number of Garden and Forest and I have just finished an 

 eles^nt plant of Ghrysosplenium which is to appear in Mr.Macoun's 

 list of the plants from the Pribilof Islands to be published in 

 the Bering Sea Report. I will try to get you a copy. . i also 

 send you a copy of a new Tradescantia which has just appeared in 

 Hooker's Icones. 1^/hen you are at the Garden arain look at the 

 plates in hooker's Icones ,Nos. 2504- 2511. Most of the material 

 for these drawings was sent on by me. You will see that Hemsley 

 makes a pleasant reference to it. 



