Urbane. 
26 Marsh, 1919 
Dear Mr.Deane:— 
It is a long time since I have heard from you directly,although my mother 
has written me of you,but I fear I have been to blame and have not answered your 
last letter to me.The fact is that I have been very busy working on a book upon 
which I have so far typewritten out nearly 350 pages and of which I have 100 or 
mors still to do,and so I have not done a great deal of letter writing or of bo¬ 
tanical work to be the basis of anything new to report.I have attended two meeting 
of a graduate journal club in botany here at one of which I heard a review of 
Professor Nichols's work on the ecology of Gape Breton,and at the other Mr.Ekblaw 
of our University tell of his botanical experiences in connection with the Crock- 
erland Expedition,of which he was a member,and toward the expenses of which the 
University contributed.Professor Cowles of Chicage,whom I had hever before met, 
was at the meeting,he being,I suppose,one of the high priests of the ecologists. 
M.l.F.has proposed to me that we investigate a little district in northern 
Coos County,near the corner of Maine, N.H., and Quebec,where Huntington found a 
ridge of serpentine.I have long wished to get at this place,which has been rather 
inaccessible, and hope that we can carry out this plan this summer,and perhaps do 
some more in the Colebrook lime area. 
I shall be much interested to see the account of what M.L.F.said at the Club 
on the subject of trees and soils.Is it to be published in Rhodora? I often wish 
that some arrangement could be made in Rhodora to give a brief account of the 
most notable things at the Club meetings for the benefit of members living at a 
distance, who constitute a considerable portion of the membership of the Club.I 
have several times spoken of the matter but it seemed to be the feeling of some 
that it could not be done, though other clubs,such as the Appalachian Club,seem to 
do it rather satisfactorily.lt wouldn't be necessary to give much space to it— 
perhaps not usually over half a page.We think nothing of announcing the meetings 
of other societies, like the Josselyn Club, but it is apparently considered bad fora, 
ever to mention our own! Naturally articles that were later to be published might 
be dismissed with a brief note as to where they might be expected to appear. 
A while ago I tried again to get Moore to give his herbarium to the Gray Herb, 
or the Club Herb.,but he says that he is working on it and trying to get it into 
better shape.I'm afraid it will waste away in his father's cellar before he gets 
around to bestow it where it might be ofi some use.He is never likely to do much 
with it,I fear. 
A gentleman whom I met here the other day told me that he was on the same 
steamer with H.H.Bartlett,who was coming back from a stay in Java(or was it Su¬ 
matra?).! have not heard from Bartlett directly for a long time.He is not much of 
a letter-writer--like many of us. 
Row early will you go to Shelburne? Our Commencement is not till 23 June,and 
