DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



Washington, d. c, January 6 ,1890. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 5 Brewster Place , Cambridge , Mass . 

 My dear Mr .Deane : 



I send you by express some fruit of 

 Ilex laevigata that I collected yesterday, but I doubt 

 whether out of it all you will get a bit that you can use 

 as an herbarium specimen, it shell's off so badly. It is 

 all my fault in procrastinating so until it was too late. 

 I collected it last year much earlier and in glorious 

 condition and wish I had then known that you wanted it. 

 It is one of our most ornamental wint erberries and I am 

 sorry I neglected to get it in its best condition. I am 

 soon going to have two yearns* collections overhauled and 

 mounted up, and in them I think there are some good specimens. 

 If so I will surely send you some. 



I found your beautiful Christmas gift on my return from 

 New York where Mrs. Ward and I spent Christmas week. It was 

 very kind of you to remember me. I do not deserve to be 

 remembered by any one. 



