SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



September 20, 1922 



Mr. Walter i<eane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Gambridge ,; .Massaisiiuse tts , 



My dear Mr. Deana : 



George has already written you that he is leaving 

 f0f»n Cambridge next Friday and that he is looking for- 

 ward to a most profitable and interesting year in the 

 Harvard -i^aw Schog^l. You will doubtless see him from 

 time to time and will find him a delightful and inter- 

 esting boy. 



Wa all spent two weeis at Atlantic City and are 

 now back home onoe more. 



I think that I told you that my o actus work was 

 being brought to a close. My third volume has all been 

 printed but unfortunately there is delay in getting the 

 plates out so that the volume has not yet been issued. 

 The fourth volume is in manuscript with many beautiful 

 illustrations but it will be moru than a year before 

 it is actually off the press. 



I hope that you have had a delightful summer and 

 that I hkall hear from you before long, I have given 

 Mr. Ivan M. Johnston a letter to you which he will pro- 

 bably present at the herbarium sometime. I have just 

 named a beautiful Feniocereus for him which is described 

 in the August number of the Journal of tha Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, page 328. 



Very truly. 



