DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



WASHINGTON D. C, Oct.12,1888. 



Mr. Walter Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 

 My dear Deane: — 



I placed your letter among Knowl ton's things 

 for him to answer your queries about books. He has been back 

 since Monday and to-day it came up. He says he thinks he told 

 you all he knew about the Point Barrows Expedition Report before, 

 that is was very rare and hard to get even for money. It cer- 

 tainly was not published in the Proe.Nat.Mus. Suppose you write 

 to Mr. John Murdock, Librarian Sm. Inst., who was long at Pt. Barrows 

 and knows everything about the literature. 



Besides the "Sketch" and "Synopsis" I have published 

 nothing on Paleobotany except ray "Types of the Larainie Flora'* 

 Bulletin No. 37 U. S. Geological Survey. That you could not want, 

 as it contains only descriptions of the same species enumerated 

 and figured at the end of the "Synopsis" with the figures re* 

 peated. By act of Congress no one can get the Bulletins except 

 by purchase. The price of this one is 25 cents and they are for 



