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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



S. p. LANGLEY 



WASHINGTON, D. C, NOV.l, 189S. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Ganibr id/':e , Mass. 

 My deal' Deane: 



I inclose a letter which I have jast received from 

 Eak^sr partly because I want you tc see what he thinks of some of my 

 work and also that you may show it to Dr.Robinsc'n as it brings up 

 one or two points about whioife we have had some corresp cndence . 

 he will also t^s iiitere«te d in the discovery of a new Addinsonian 

 naue. It -.Till be interesting to see what our reformers will do 

 with it. I have rather sad news to tell ycu. Drude has referred 

 the genus Deanea to Rhod 0 8»iad ium. I do not think he is rirht in 

 his conclusions and yet I aiii disappointed that he does not reeof^- 

 nize the genus. The alliance of D e an ea_ seems to me to be elsewhere. 

 If the name is to be ^^i ven up I should not refer the genus as ho does 

 I believe this and Museniopsi are the only two genera of mine 

 which he does not accept. Museniopsi s he referred to Vclaea, but 



