158

Grinnell, Iowa
Nov. 26 '80

My dear Prof. Bessey,

I was about when your
[last?] book of Botany was
sent, and returned but a few
days ago, and then did not
find the book at the Post
Office but received it subsequently
from the hands of
Prs. M., so that I [have?]
had no time to examine it.
Indeed, my study has been
given so much to other things
that I do not feel competent
to criticize your thorough
work in botany; but if, as
a Teacher and general student
of science, anything occurs to
me in reading the book, I
shall gladly communicate it.
A glance through its pages
impresses me that it is just
the work that is needed, and