CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



COASTAL LABORATORY. CARMEL, CALIFORNIA DESERT L A B O R AT O R Y, T U C S O N , A R I ZO N A 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. , 



November 27, 1915. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Mr. Deane: 



Please pardon me Tor not having written to you 

 sooner, but I have been very much occupied since I came home. I 

 have been in New York four times since October 6th and may go once 

 or twice more before the opening of the new year. 



I read a paper before the National Academy in New York on the 

 17th of this month. 



I have had several nice letters from Professor Thaxter. I 

 met several people who collected with him in South America, and 

 he has told me who it was that published on his pets so soon after 

 he came back. 



I have just had a nice letter from Oakes Ames, who, as you 

 probably know, is leaving for South America very soon. 



Yours very truly, 



