Amherst College 
Amherst. Massachusetts 
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
29 Brewster Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
February 20, 1929 
/2X^ 
My dear Mr. Deane: 
When in Cambridge for a few minutes last Sunday morning I had 
hoped to have a chance to call on you, but time forbad* , since there was 
a matter of college business to attend to, and then I had to catch a train 
home from Boston. I hope, however, that you are well and that I shall have 
more time on some subsequent occasion to get to 29 Brewster Street. At an 
Amherst alumni dinner the night before.,in Boston,I saw Dr. Hushmore and 
Mr. Qujtnn for a moment’s chat with each. I hope that at some club meeting 
you may perhaps have a chance to meet our new member from Amherst, Professor 
Meriam. 
I was talking over our botanical library yesterday with Professor 
Coodale and noting that there were a good many things in the line of local 
floras etc., which we ought to secure, and it occurred to me to wonder -whether 
you had ever made any plans for your botanical books. I suppose that most of 
them would be likely to duplicate materials at the Gray herbarium, and I 
realize that the 6lub library has little space for expansion. Goodale is 
working very diligently here upon the local flora, that is, the Connecticut 
watershed in Massachusetts, and has many opportunities to profit by the use 
of other local floras. As funds permit, he is building up a good little 
reference library in botany, and if you should ever feel like bequeathing 
us some of your collection in that field (or also in ornithology,where our 
Dr. Friedmann is not only doing excellent work with the native fauna but is 
to be granted leave of absence for next year to go on a Harvard expedition 
to collect in some unexplored mountains in Hast Africa),I am sure that yoti 
could hardly place the volumes where they would be more, appreciated. Judge 
Churchill has perhaps told you of his visit here and of the well arranged 
and fireproof quarters in which our botanical work (like that in zoology) 
is now ensconced. This is a suggestion nf a spare moment, but perhaps it 
may strike you as not altogether unattractive, and I trust that you will not, 
knowing something of the ways of college presidents, consider it an 
impertinence I 
With cordial regards from us all to Miss Brown and you, I remain, as ever 
Yours ^safest- 
JrhP 
