Charles Bessey, Letters, 1881

Morse

Peabody Academy of Science,

Salem, Mass.,

Apr 13th 1881

My dear Sir,

Could you find it convenient to give six lectures on Physiological Botany this summer at our school?

Thinking that basically you might have contemplated a trip East this summer you might be willing to accept the small sum that we can offer you for this course, namely one hundred dollars ($100). The lectures might be given in the course of two weeks commencing about July 18th.

Will you kindly answer within a week and greatly oblige

Yours very truly Ewd S Morse

School of 1880.

Peabody Academy of Science, Summer School of Biology.

The fifth session of the Summer School of Biology will be held at the Museum of the Academy, beginning July 7th, and continuing six weeks.

The course of instruction will be designed expressly for teachers of the public and private schools. It will be elementary in its character and will have a two-fold object: First, to present methods of teaching from actual specimens. Second, to give some idea of the methods of original investigation.

Special direction will be given to students in aiding them to make collections for use in their own schools, and collecting trips for this purpose will be made in the vicinity.

Instructors.

Physiological Botany. A course of six lectures by Prof. George L. Goodale, Harvard University.

Cryptogamic Botany. A course of four lectures by John Robinson.

Analytical Botany. Instruction by John H. Sears.

Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates. Lectures and laboratory work by Prof. H. H. Straight, Oswego Normal School.

Coelenterates. A course of six lectures by J. W. Fewkes, Museum of Comp., Zoology.

Entomology. Lectures and instruction by Charles Fish.

Invertebrate Animals. Lectures and instruction by Edward S. Morse.

The Museum of the Academy is within easy reach of the beaches and other collecting grounds.

The class will be limited to twenty-four, and preference will be given to the teachers of Esssex County, Mass. Thirty-five additional tickets will be issued to those who wish to attend the lectures only. Lectures and laboratory instruction will be limited to the forenoon, so that students living in the county may return to their homes at an early hour. The Laboratory will be open in the afternoon for those wishing to continue their work. It is desirable that students should bring their microscopes with them. Applicants should send in their names on or before the 10th of June if possible. Full name, profession, and schools which they have taught, should accompany each application.

Students Ticket, $10.00. Ticket to Lectures only $5.00

Edward S. Morse. Salem, Mass.

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.

Would you be kind enough to let me have some information about that plant; is it sensible to the influence of a magnet? Would you prepare any plan by which the said plant could be brought over to this country? Is it a delicate plant? Do you think it could reach France without suffering too much?

I beg your pardon to impose upon your kindness although I am not personally knonw to you.

The great interest of the matter will be my [?].

Believe me, Dear Sir, yours very truly Alf. Niandet 6. Rue du Seine Paris.

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.

Providence, R. I., Oct. 27 1881

My dear Prof. Bessey,

I am certainly very much obliged to you for editing the botanical department of the Naturalist for the past year, and earnestly hope that you will be able to go on with the work during the coming year and as long after as you can. I suppose it takes valuable time, and only wish we had the means to pay for editorial work.

I will try to get the botanical journals you desire. I could have sent you the Am. Agriculturist if I had thought you would have wanted it. I have never been able to get the Linnaean Society or Annales der Sc. Nat. Bot. to exchange or the Gardener's Monthly. I will try to obtain the others. You should have them. [?] many thanks for [?] favors & hoping you will continue to aid us.

I am Yours, sincerely A. S. Packard, Jr.