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U. S. Fish Commission and Census of 1880.

Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner.
Frances A. Walker, Sup't Census.
G. Brown Goode, Asst. in charge of Fishery Investigations.
David S. Jordan, Asst. in charge of work on Pacific Coast.

Indiana State University,
Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 18th 1880.

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Dear Sir,

The copy
of your Botany which you have
kindly had sent to me arrived
during my absence in California,
hence my delay in acknowledging
it.

I have been very much
pleased with the work, and
I can heartily subscribe to all
the [?] which it is
receiving from those who have
examined it. For the American
student it seems to me
decidedly the most serviceable
work on general Botany extant.

Cordially yours
David S. Jordan.