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this summer with Prof. J. C. Arthur who seems to be a
protege of yours.

I remain
– Sincerely yours
John M. Coulter.

but by the time we have disposed of
physiology, morphology & systematic botany,
what time have we left for economic?
Not, of course, that I understand your 2nd part
to be devoted to economic botany, but that
part of it devoted to [Phaenogams?], could be
best used in [the?] course of lectures upon
that department. Your treatment of the
[Cryptogamis?] is just what I have been wanting,
for they have been too long neglected in our
text books, & our students often graduate
with no knowledge of what a [cryptogam?]
is if he denpends upon the books placed in his
hands. With regard to your raising the
rank of some [cryptogamic?] groups I shall
say nothing, for I am no judge in the matter.
If it suits [cryptogamic?] botanists, it will
surely content me & I will teach it.

Please understand the bearings of my
remarks. They do not condemn either part,
for they are both excellent, the 2nd part being
even more valuable than the first for it
is more your [sum?] contribution, but I
do think the bringing together an unhappy
one. If the first part could be bound up
along I am confident it could be sold
hundreds of times where the whole book
will not be touched. Maybe I am
mistaken, but I dislike to compel my boys
to purchase a book, two-thirds of which
they are not required to use. Of course I
am going to do it & am going to work into
use more or less of the second part, but
probably I am more enthusiastic than