CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



COASTAL LABORATORY. CARMEL, CALIFORNIA DESERT L AB O R ATO RY, T U C S O N , A R I20 N A 



Smithsonian Institution, iVashington, D. G. , 



April jj^, 1914. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Mr. Deane: 



I have been intending to write you for some 

 time to answer some of the questions you asked me regarding the 

 street car accident. The car on which the accident occurred was 

 not one of the regular pay-as-you-enter cars with doors that 

 draw up the steps and close tightly, but was one of the old cars 

 worked over, with the conductor at the rear end taking up fares. 

 This caused a congestion in this part of the car and prevented 

 all the children from getting safely into the car before it 

 started, had the modern up-to-date car been used, or proper 

 care shown by the conductor, no accident would have occurred. 



I am sending you the last number of the High School Magazine 

 which was issued as a memorial number. 



You will be surprised, and T have no doubt will be pleased, 

 to learn that I expect to start for South America about the first 

 of June, going by way of Panama to Lima, Valparaiso, Santiago, 

 Mendoza, and back by way of La Paz, making, of course, numerous 

 intermediate stops . I am going primarily and almost wholly in 

 the interest of my Cactus Investigation, and hope to make large 



