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teaching Botany by lectures [?] after [?] experiments I have found that [?] such an [order]? in the treatment of the different topics as that [?] you adapt is [bees]? and proves most successful. No American book with which I am familiar is comparable to yours for the purpose for which it is designed and I am sure that is will prove excedingly valuable, both as a text book for college and as a [normal]? of the subject for the general student. I congratulate you upon the number and excellence of the engravings and the general appearance of the book. I am very glad that so good a book is before [her]? students over.

Yours very truly,

[?] H. Perkins.