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of Botanical science
from living plants
instead of from books
alone as is too often
done. We shall immediately
make use of it
in the Ohio State
University.

Yours truly
N. S. [?]

P.S. I find nothing
[that?] I [?] competent
to criticise, an occasionally
misspelled name is I
suppose almost impossible
to avoid – You are as
likely to use anything
I have written, [as?] to
use [my? / any?] name for reference
or in [?] commendation
of the work.

N. S. [?]