DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



WASHINGTON D. C.,NOV. 11, 188 7. 



Mr. Walter Dean 8, 5 Brewster Place, Cambridge, Mass. 

 My dear Mr. Deane, 



T was indeed glad to get your letter and as- 

 sure you that Mrs. Ward and I remember and cherish as among the. 

 most pleasant things of* our lives the Boston trip and your kind 

 of fic es, without which it would have been a comparative failure. 

 Please remember us to all the excellent people we 'net while there- 



I got back from the National Park in September thoroughly reno- 

 vated and made over. Prof . Knowl ton was with me and we held a 

 grand trip and a very successful one. 



I have sent in an application to have the Proceedings oC the 

 National Museum sent to you, but am by no means sure that it will 

 be done. T have backed up the application with a let ter, set ting 

 forth the obligations the Institution is under to you, but they 

 may require some more definite assurance that an exchange will be 

 made. 



T am s@rry that it ../ill be impossible to get you the other two 



