Charles Bessey, Letters, 1881

the set by April – will write to Prof. Budd presently.

I wish I had time to write for the scientific periodicals but I am overtasked with field work & am not given time enough to attend to my private affaits.

During the past two years I have been employed by the Census Dept. (under Prof. Sargent) in studying the Southern forest trees & procuring specimens of them. I am also collecting a set of timber specimens for the Central Park Museum. The spcms. I have sent in Prof. Sargent [pronounces?] by far the best he ever saw. They are 5 ft. long & from 2 ft. to 6 in. in diameter.

My explorations have added many new trees to the U. S. [?].

including 2 or 3 Palms, one being the magnificent [?] or Royal Palm, of which there are considerable forests west of the Everglades – I first found it on the 15th of July, 1880.

The remarkable shrub which you will find in Fasc. V., among the [?], lettered B, I think, Prof. Gray finds to be Catesbara parviflora (near Randia).

Next year I intentd to spend five months in the Smoky Mts. of E. Tennessee.

Yours very truly A. H. Curtis. A. H. Curtis

Daniel C. Eaton, New Haven, Connecticut. June 6. 1881

Prof. C. E. Bessey, Dear Sir,

Are you willing to write to the new Commissioner of Agriculture, Dr. Geo. B. [Lorring?], commending Dr. Vaseys faithful services, & asking his retention in office? I understand that there is a vague possibility that Dr. L., not knowing him, may remove him, though nothing definite has transpired.

I have already writen to Dr. L., & have asked the Harvard Botanists to do the same.

Yours very truly D. C. Eaton.

[?] Febr 23d [?] [25?]

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.

The American Naturalist. Letters on business connected with the American Naturalist should be addressed to the Publishers, McCalla & Stavely, 237-9 Dock Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Terms of Naturalist, $4.00 a year.

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".

Newfield N. Jersey Feb. 23d 1881

Prof. C. E. Bessey Dear Sir

Please accept my thanks for your favor of the 18th [?] with draft on N. Y. for $7.

I am also much pleased that you seem satisfied with my work, and thank you for your kind consideration in noticing it in the Naturalist.

I have still 15 sets of the fungi (out of the 46 which I publish of each Cent.), but have no doubt that they will all be called for as soon as the parties desiring them learn that they are to be had.

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We (my wife & I) are now at work on Cent. VI. which will be ready some time the coming spring and perhaps also Cent. VII. as I am behind one Cent. and have the material on hand.

I have to get them out in the winter as during the warmer season I have to be busy on other matters – I enclose a formal receipt and with best wishes remain very truly yours.

J. B. Ellis

[23 Feb 1881]