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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



S. p. LANGLEY 

 Ohas. D. Walcott 



WASHINGTON, D. C, De C . 14 , 189. 7 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 TvTy dear j^eane; 



Your note of December 12th, is at hand. i have 

 been trying for two months to write to you and only yesterday i got 

 out your old letter to answer it, i am quite well but oh,a) very 

 busy. I wish I could show you the collection i brought back now 

 that it is almost all mounted. i will have about 25oo numbers and 

 although it contains many common species yet there is qn indefinite 

 number of new ones, many more than i had expected. Last week i 

 worked over five genera containing an aggregate of twelve spe pies, 

 ten of which were new? i have forty sheets of oaks, all in fine 

 condition; ^sheets of ferns which are to go to our good friend 

 Davenport. i shall soon send on some material to Dr.Roblnson and 

 When you are there ask to see it. of course the specimens are not 

 like the ones you make. Remember that they were collected while T 

 was making some twenty to twenty-five miles on horseback per day^that 

 Often they were carried in the portfolio all day long put i^o pr^ss 



