609

Original in Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation; Carnegie-Mellon Uni., Pitts., PA
Twentieth Century Botanists Collection

to Bessey 17 - IX - 1881

Botanical Gazette.

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Museum of
Wabash College.

Crawfordsville, Ind., _______ 188_

the whole scheme. You are in the field
with a capital text book + we all think
it is time for a capital western ------------

I have scores of correspondents writing
[sic.] for the best on annuals to use in
all the states I have enumerated. What can
I answer then? Botanical work there is
most discouraging and any help that is
needed should be supplied. Please give
your opinion of the need + feasibility of
such a work + all you think about
it. This is of course inter [?].

Sincerely yrs,
John M. Coulter.

P.S. Maybe you know of some one at work
upon [just?] such a book.