CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



COASTAL LABORATORY. CAR MEL. CAUl FORN i A DESERT L AB O R ATO R Y, T U C S O N , A R I ZO N A 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. , 



May 1, 1915. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Mr. Deane: 



Your various cards and letters have been re- 

 ceived and have been greatly appreciated by all the family. I 

 am very busy, as you can well understand, making my final arrange- 

 ments for my departure from New York a week from to-day. 



Doctor Greene told me that he was sending you some of his 

 book plates the other day, and I am now sending you five copies 

 of the John Dorjaell Smith collection. 



Mr. Russell has your plants in shape and they will be sent 

 to you in a day or two. 



Mr. Fairchild has just published in his Plant Immigrants a 

 beautiful picture of the Ginkgo Avenue in the Department of Agri- 

 culture grounds, and I am asking him to send a copy of this report 

 to you so that you can get a copy of this photograph. 



I am having a copy of Mr. Maxon's report on my South American 

 ferns sent to you, and I am also enclosing some extracts from the 

 Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 



I'ours very truly. 



Research Associate. 



