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HARD, MD.
53 FOURTH ST.

Jan, 29, 1887

My Dear Professor Bessey,

After a profounded absence from town I have recieved the copy of you Botany for the publishers, and have writters [word] in acknowlegement. [word] calculated to serve one an introduction to the study of plant." Classes that enjoy the luxury of laboratory work in Botany, or whose opportunities permit a biological treatment of the subject, will find in full of the [word] of modern science and most avaible as a textbook. It will be indispensable to teachers, whatever the extent of their scholarship in the grade of the pupils. I hope to go through the book throughly before