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The New York
Homeopathic Medical College
Office of the Dean, 40 East 36th St.,
New York, May 16 1881
Dear Professor:
I received the very interesting chara from the Hots Springs, Dakota, and I find it to be a very unusual form of our most wide spread multiform and puzzling species, chara intermedia, A. Br. This form has very long naked terminals to the leaves and in this respect particularly differs from almost every other form. I should have been very glad of a hundred specimens of it. Do not forget me when you are botanizing.
Yours very sincerely,
T. F. Allen.
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Madison, Wis. Feb 4" 1881
Dear Professor; You see I came man writing to you some weeks ago. I read a paper before the joint convention of the Agricultural & Horticultural Societies which is now in session here, on Fungi. I treated the subject in a general manner, showing what they are, and their economic importance. This closed the part of my paper that I read. I then explained the growth and reproduction of one example from each of the four primary groups, from charts that I prepared roughly with a crayon
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on ordinary blank newspaper. For the [protophyta?] I took Fig. 140 of your Botany; for the [gygosporeas?] Fig. 160; for [sosporeas?] Fig. 173. 177. 180 and H from 176: for the Fig. 216, 217, and Fig 71 from De Bary's ? + Phys des Pilge, alas III IV + V of Fig 188 of your Botany. The paper was recieved with the greatest enthusiasm, and many questions were asked during its delivery, and it was followed by a discussion that lasted nearly an hour, and as it showed no signs of abating the Pres. of the [?] then interrupted and called for the next paper. The whole time occupied was nearly two hours. They were profuse with their praises before I had finished my paper, and as soon as I sat down they gave me a very hearty vote of thanks. As the
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him as affirm and they did everything to show their appreciation. The paper belongs to the Agric. Soc., but the Hort. Soc. wish to also publish it, and although they wished to have it complete finally concluded that the Agr. Soc. should publish it in full with the illustrations, and the Hort. Soc. should give an abstract of the first part and the particular descriptions be made even fuller than for the [?]. They offer to obtain engravings of the best charades for any original drawings I may wish to insert. But of course I have none to offer. I write you about this because it was so unexpected and so remarkable. And also I wish to enquire where and at what probable cost the electrotypes of the cuts I have
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named can be obtained. I wish to hurry up the publication so as to distribute extras as soon as possible.
The chair of Botany in the Univ. of Ohio has just been filled, and, although I thought I was as certain of the position as one is of living through the coming day, I have just heard of my defeat by a man of Dayton, Ohio, who was supported by the State Hort. Soc. and had various other backing. I go home next week to attend the wedding of my sister, shall probably soon after visit Minneapolis to see what can be done in that direction.
I have just had bound a complete set of the reports of C. H. Pick to the N. Y. Nat. Hist. Mus. It makes a thick volume of which I am proud. Yours [?]
J. C. Arthur