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Edited by
Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr.,
and
Prof. E. D. Cope.

Associate Editors
{Prof. C. E. Bessey, Department of Botany.
{Prof. C. V. Riley, Department of Entomology.
{Prof. O. T. Mason, Department of Anthropology.
{Dr. R. H. Ward, Department of Microscopy.
{Ellis H. Yarnall, Esq., Dep. of Geography and Travels.

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Ames, Iowa, Feb. 21st 1881

My dear Dr. Englemann.

Will you be kind enough
to send me a copy of your
"Revision of the Genus [Pinus?], and
Description of [Pinus?] [Elliottis?]"
published last year. I am
gathering up matter for my
sketch of the "Progress of Botany
in the U. S. in the year 1880", and
should like to carefully examine
the paper. I shall esteem it
a great [?] to be [furnished?]
with copies of other papers published
in 1880, or references to
them.

Truly [?]
C. E. Bessey

P. S. I have no copy of the paper "The Acorns
and [Their?] Germination".