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Société Française de Physique

Trésorier: 6, rue de Seine

Paris, le 18 May 1881

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Ames
Iowa

Sir

I am indebted for your name and
address to Prof. Goodall of the
Harvard University — Cambridge
Mass.

I applied to him long ago for
information about the Compass
plant.

He told me you would probably
have the said plant in your
Jardin du Plantes.