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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



(. P. LANGLEY, Stjcretary 



J. BROWN GOODE, issistant Secretary, 



ia charge of IT. S. National Muse 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



^i^^^^ D. C. , April 6,1897. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 My dear Deane :- 



Robinsonella it shall bel I should have written 

 and thanked you for your kindness but I have been devoting every 

 minute to Urabelliferae work. Professor '^oulter having come on for a 

 short visit. We have outlined a great deal of work including 

 three new species of Deanea. 



I have just received Mrs . Rob inson ' s tracings with which I am 

 exceedingly well pleased. 



Of course you are right about the orchid leaves ^as you usually 

 are. I certainly had in mind leaves like Habenaria orbiculata 

 and I am sorry to have made this slip. Still they may be called 

 an orchid-like leaves. 



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The remark in my last letter that I understood Dr. Rob inson did 

 not object to the new genus was intended as a question. You had 

 stated in your card of the day before that you had spoken to Dr. 

 Robinson about the genus, but wrote nothing else. I infered that 

 it was agreeable and that you were too busy to write farther. 



