A.H. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



DIVISION OF AGROSTOLOGY, 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



March 8, 1897. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



9 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Sir : 



Your very kind note of March 5d received. I am certainly glad if my 

 observations upon your Panicums are of value and use to you. I now have 

 nearly all of the Panicums of this dichotomous group figured and engrav- 

 ed, and as soon as the series is complete, I think I shall publish them 

 in advance of the Handbook, because of the trouble they occasion to all 

 of us. A little special paper on them may be helpful to many. 



I really would be glad to drop in to some of your club meetings, and 

 am constantly hoping that it may be possible for me to do so some time . 



I do not yet know the attitude of the present administration in re- 

 gard to grass investigations, but I trust it will be favorable, and that 

 the good work may go on. 



I was interested in what you said concerning the abnormal specimen 

 of Phleum pratense . I have found similar examples in Tennessee. I do 

 not know the cause of such peculiar growth. 



Kindly remember me to Mrs. Deane, and believe me as ever, 



Yours very cordially, 



