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Haines

Davis City, Iowa,
Sept. 1st 1880.

Prof. C. E. Bessey,

Dear Sir.—

Wishing to get a
microscope, I write to you for
information. I desire to have
a fair instrument, one that will
magnify from 200 to 250 [diametres?]
Perhaps you have some at
Ames which you would like
to dispose of. If so, I would
as soon have it as to order
a new one.

As I am going to study
physiology, I would also feel grateful
to you for your opinion as to
the relative merits of Carpenter's,
Draper's, & Dalton's, Physiologies.

I will be at this place during
the fall and winter in the ca-