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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 



fall with Adaiison's otlier genera? And while we are under this 



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head do you know the basis of a?. (St?ay's adoption of Dcpyopteris in the 



early edition or editions(?) of the manual and the later rejection of 



It? I thinli this would be an interesting point if it coiild be laiown but 



have found nothing bearing on the matter* 



Surely when the new building and green house are gotten in shape 



you must come do)0i and see how we are to be fixed. We are to have a 



botanical museum building four stories high and over tliree hundred feet 



flont with possibility of extension backward in two wings 150 feet or 



so on either side* Tlie fourth story is purely scientific with a herbariu>^ 



room 50 by 90 feet with the possibility of an addition of 150 feet more 



; a library with stack room for at least so, 000 volumes and laboratories 



for morphological and Physiological work. The Green ho\ise will be over /< 



five hundred feet fcont with two wings and then two t ails so as to en- 

 close nearly a rectangular court. The central dome of this will be 



65 feet^so as to take in palmsi The plans for the entire lay-out of 



the garden^and these two buildings are all made and will go before the 



Managers this month and we hope nothing will prevent their being under 



way before snow flies on the cpoundsi I«ty work on coinraittees and direc- 

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 t . m?sffT1n<»js^ iiiii M a J. [i(if i iii n 1lLa^iJii 3 ailqn. i ijyij datBoajrietQitoatong^ had great dlffl>^^ 



culty in getting the additional species into the new edition of my fern 



book as I had to preserve the form of the pages intact and condense; 



such a treatment is unsatidfactory^ ♦^'^''W^ 'yut^n^ ^ /T ^f*^ , 



I have written you a long letter tho not i:i ray own hand and yet in 



the o~^.ly v^'ay possible to a man with as many irons in the fire as I 



