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circular of Miss Athern[s?] School at [?]. We think such work in such a place will be both pleasant and profitable.
We often talk of our very fine visit with you all and hope you may soon come to see us and renew your intimacy with the I. A. C. We go east for the winter. – It is sad that Dr [Winter?] is dead. I hope some one will carry forward the Fungus public A[ss.?] to completion.
I find the Hungarian grass here infested with Peronospora [graminicola?] (Sacc.) [Schr?]. The heads are distorted as in the case of [Sitaria?].
We all join in kindest of [words?] to you all.
Yours sincerely Byron D. Halsted.
[upside down:] Halsted Sept 5, 87
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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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Agl. & Mechl Coll Orono, Me Nov. 15-87
Prof. C. E. Bessey My Dear Sir;
Have you a copy of your [Erysiphi?] of the U. S. to spare? If there is any expense send bill with some. Should like a copy of you recent paper on Neb. Grasses if you can spare one.
Like my position very much. Work is appreciated here, and I find the botanical field an almost unexplored one so far as Cryptogams are concerned. Will have good [quarters?] next year in one
