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San Francisco Aug 16 1880
Prof C. E. Bessey.
Dear Sir
Your note of recent date is just received. I shall be very glad to receive your work on Botany and will give it a careful examination when received. I [illegible] East this week having been on this Coast for about nine months as [illegible] by the [illegible] card. My address is now Bloomington [illegible]
Cordially yours David S. Jordan
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U.S. Fish Commission and Census of 1880.
SPENCER F. BAIRD, Commissioner. FRANCIS A. WALKER, Sup't Census. G. BROWN GOODE, Asst. In charge of Fishery Investigatons. 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 book; and I can [heartly]? [?] to all the [?] which it is receiving from those who have been [?] it. For the American student it seems to me decidedly the most serviceable work on general Botany [?].
Cordially yours,
David S. Jordan.
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MONTREAL
[?]
PM
CANADA
Prof. C. E. Bessey
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames Iowa
U. S.
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Montreal Aug 10th /80
Professor Bessey
Dear sir
I received a copy of your book on Botany today: for which please accept my thanks. I like the appearance of this work very much and anticipate great pleasure in perusing it. I will communicate with you of course after reading it. [I plan a review?] [of it?] in our [?] journal the Canada [Medical?] Board.
Yours sincerely [?] [Connell?]