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Waterloo, N. Y.
July 22, 1885.

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey,
Dear Sir:

Perhaps
by this time you will be
able to give your attention
to the collections of Algae
about which I wrote you
in May. The sets comprise
from six to nine
hundred specimens, classified
and named from the
Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts, England, M[?],
Sandwhich S[?]. & Portugal.
I offer them at 25 each
though my father received