CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



DESERT LABORATORY, TU C S O N , A R IZ O N A 



April 25, 1918. 



My dear Mr. Deane: 



Rebecca handed me your letter of March 25 , to look 

 up the little umble from PlxHaiiier Island but I have not 

 had a minute to do it until this very moment. I recall 

 very well the day the plant was collected and I have a 

 duplicate in the national Herbari-um. I am sending you 

 an autograph label which you may keep if you desii?e. I 

 do have some confusion about ray initials. As you know, 

 tJiere is a botanist writer in New York whose initials 

 are N, J. and our names come together in Bailey* b Ency- 

 clopedia, in his list of contributors. 



By the way speaking of Bailey, I saw him, yesterday 

 at the meetings of the National Academy and we were talk- 

 ing about you and your birthday. You know Bailey was elec- 

 ted a member of the National Academy, last year and this 

 was his first attendance at the meeting of this august boeLy. 

 He must have felt rather lonesome as he was the only out- 

 of-town botanist who attended the meeting. 



You have perhaps noticed by the papers that Professor 

 Atkinson was elected a member at the meeting yesterday. 



