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Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashbille
Aug
16
Tenn.

Prof. C. E. Bessey,
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames,
Iowa.

Vanderbilt Univ.
Nashville, Tenn.
Aug. 16th 1880.

Prof. C. E. Bessey.

Dear Sir,

Your [favor?]
of Aug. 11th. The Botany
came in due time. I have
not had time to examine
it so as to be prepared
to criticize it, as you invite
me to do, but, so far as
I have looked over it, I
have been greatly pleased
with the book. Your plan
differs from that of our
ordinary text books and
is a departure in the right
direction.

Had it come in season
I would have put it in