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Wooden Cross Section Cards.
Patented February 9th, 1886.
For Fancy And Business Purposes.

Romeyn B. Hough,
Patentee and Manufacturer.

Townville, N. Y., Dec. 12 1887

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Univ. of Neb.

Dear Sir:– Yours of 9th inst. recd.

I thank you very heartily for your kind consideration
of my request as to the use of cuts. I
am sure you could not have [evinced?] a more generous
disposition. Everything used will, of course, be
duly acknowledged.

I am especially grateful to you too for offering to notice
my work in the Amer. Naturalist and shall take pleasure
in placing the material for you to work from into your hands
as soon as possible. That is something I have been
hoping for but hardly know how to get until your kindly
offer.

yes, the subscribers to the work which my good father
once proposed issuing, I am rather counting upon for my
work, and as soon as ready I intend placing my circular
before them, as far as possible. Shall be pleased to consider
the Univ. of Neb. as already on my list.

I am pleased to send you herewith, which I do under
separate [?], a transverse section of the