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Original in the Nebraska State Historical
Society, Robert Furnas Collection

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA,
LINCOLN.

THE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE.
Office of Dean, 1885.

most important function of
such an office. In fact
the record would be rather
an incidental function.

The collecting of data as to
our nation and introduced grasses
is a work which the Agricultural
Society might well take up
in this way. The work would
have to finally pass through the
hands of a botanist for the purpose
of securing accuracy, so
that it would be better to put
a botanist at it to begin with.
Of course it is to be understood that
such botanist would have to take the testimony
of practical grass growers
all over the state so as to bring out
the practical side of the matter.
After a year or two of such investigation
a good manual might be