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U.S. Fish Commission and Census of 1880.

SPENCER F. BAIRD, Commissioner.
FRANCIS A. WALKER, Sup't Census.
G. BROWN GOODE, Asst. In charge of Fishery Investigatons.
DAVID S. JORDAN, Asst. In charge of work on Pacific Coast.

Indiana State University,

Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 18th 1880.

Prof. C. E. Bessey

Dear Sir.

The copy of your Botany which you have kindly had sent to me arrived during my absence in California hence my delay in acknowledging it.

I have been very much pleased with the book; and I can [heartly]? [?] to all the [?] which it is receiving from those who have been [?] it. For the American student it seems to me decidedly the most serviceable work on general Botany [?].

Cordially yours,

David S. Jordan.