Portland Society of natural History. 
22 ELM STREET 
Portland, Maine, U. S. A. 3-® J8HU&Ty, 19 <34• 
Dear Mr. Deane : 
I an returning with sincere thanks your photograpg 
of Pref. J.W.lsiley. 
I Have looked up yeur article in Rhedera 1914 and read it with. 
*uch interest: I rSgard y©urs as about the "best ,for 
information that I have seen concerning Frof.j.w. lailey. 
re ycu have Dr.Geo. Thurber in ycur eellecti®n,er is there any 
likeness of hiw in print that I would probably have access to? 
I should like to get him for my collection of Katakdin lantern 
slides* Ho was one of the party whjfioh went up in 1847,under 
the auspices of Dr. Yount*s letanicdl survey. 
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I have a negative of Dr. Young hut have not been able to lsyn 
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hands on it jsut now. As soon as I find it I shall have a print 
made and will send you oneI have lately unearthed an eld phetog, 
ef Rev. Marcus Keep,^said to have known the Ktaadn plants in their 
alpine haunts,©to.,(Rhodera article),and though net noted as a lotart 
j think he nay he of interest. As I mail this I take the negative 
in to have prints, and will remember you when I get then, in a day 
or so. 
Thanking you again for your help. 
Very 
Arthur H. lorton. 
;ruly yours. 
