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MUSEUM

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University of Vermont,

BURLINGTON, VT., September 18 1880

Prof. C. E. Bessey

Dear Sir

I have just completed a somewhat careful examination of your Botany and in accordance with your segment I take pleasure in expressing my opinion of its merits. I [?] take pleasure for I am able to do so as it is always a pleasure to commend a good book. The plan of the Botany I like very much. I have been in the habit of