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Sept 20/87.

Dear Dr. Bessey:

Please accept my
many thanks for the copy of your
work upon Grasses. I shall [?]
[???] a book of yours before long
upon [?] [?] of the [?].

If I can get to it it is my
hope to furnish the Naturalist a
paper before the close of the year. The
close work & committee meetings (!) seem
to take nearly all my time now.

Yours truly, B D Halsted

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