CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



;OASTAL LABORATORY CARMEU, CA1_I FORN I A DESERT L A B O R ATO R Y, T U C S O N , A R I ZO N A 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, B. G, , 



January J^j, 1915. 



Mr, Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Deane: 



Your letter came to hand last night and we were all 

 very glad indeed to hear from you. Yes, I have been very busy 

 since my return from South America, trying to get my collection 

 properly mounted, my notes put into shape, and the like. I 

 brought back with me more than a tliousand numbers, and, of course, 

 a great many things besides the Cactuses, such as mosses, ferns, 

 senecios for Greenman, grasses for Hitchcock, and the like. 



when in Chile I obtained a set of the Chilean stamps from 

 one cent up to one dollar, and this I am enclosing in this letter. 



You wrote to Mrs. Rose some time ago that you ard Mrs. Deane 

 might come to see us some time during early spring. We shall be 

 very glad to have you come whenever convenient for you. April 

 is a lovely month here. 



Doctor Britton wishes me to go to South America about the 

 first of May, but I hardly think I can get away by that time. 



Yours very truly, 



