CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



DESERT LABORATORY, TU CS O N , A R IZO N A 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. , 



October 13, 1915. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Mr. Deane: 



I have been intending to write to you ever since 

 I returned to Washington a week ago to-day, but you can well under- 

 stand that I have been rather busy. Our collection, consisting 

 of about 1700 numbers, is all here to be arranged and made ready 

 for mounting. In addition to this I brought back from Mendoza 

 over a hundred birds, snaked , reptiles, a large collection of diatoms, 

 more than 300 mosses, fully 300 ferns, shells and in fact all kinds 

 of natural history material. Mr. Russell collected some 200 beet]BS 

 and these I am writing to Professor Thaxter about. These will go 

 throxigh the ordinary Museum channels, I purchased a small col- 

 lection on my own hook and this I am sending to him to look over. 



Mrs. Rose and I leave for New York this afternoon and will be 

 at the McAlpin Hotel for the remainder of the week. 



Just as soon as T can get time I shall write to you more about 

 my trip. 



I enclose a bulletin which you will be interested in looking 



over. 



Yours very truly, 



