| 607from Coulter
Botanical Gazette.
Museum of
Wabash College.
Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 17 1881
Prof. C. E. Bessey:
My Dear Sir,
Several of us have had
in mind for some time the publication of a
manual of Botany to take the place of Gray's Manual
in the western states. Dr. Gray is too much
occupied with the whole of N. Am. to turn aside
+ publish a more local work, but still there
are teachers of botany throughout the states west
of the Mississippi to whom such a manual
would be most acceptable. The idea is to
have such a work follow exactly the plan of
Gray's Manual, in fact be a companion to it.
Then as to range there have been two
plans. One is to take the Mississippi as
the Eastern limit + [on?] west to about the
104th Meridian + south to the limit of
Gray's Manual extended west. That would
exactly take in the beginning at the north, Dakota, Minn.,
Neb., Iowa, Kansas & Missouri. The other
plan is to follow the Mississippi to the | 607from Coulter
Botanical Gazette.
Museum of
Wabash College.
Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 17 1881
Prof. C. E. Bessey:
My Dear Sir,
Several of us have had
in mind for some time the publication of a
manual of Botany to take the place of Gray's Manual
in the western states. Dr. Gray is too much
occupied with the whole of N. Am. to turn aside
+ publish a more local work, but still there
are teachers of botany throughout the states west
of the Mississippi to whom such a manual
would be most acceptable. The idea is to
have such a work follow exactly the plan of
[Gray's] Manual, in fact [be?] a companion to it.
Then as to range there have been two
plans. One is to take the Mississippi as
[two?] Eastern limit + [our?] west to about the
104th Meridian + south to the limit of
[Gray's] Manual extended west. That would
exactly take in the beginning at the north, Dakota, Minn.,
Neb., Iowa, Kansas & Missouri. The other
plan is to follow the Mississippi to the |
