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[Granville?], Mass, Aug 19 1887
Prof C. E. Bessey Dear Sir,
You asked me some time ago to write something for the Naturalist but I have been too busy. I endorse a paper that I read at A. A. A. S. I handed in only abstract for publication in the proceedings.
If you care to publish this please return to me & I will copy [?]. Address me as above for the present.
Very respectfully yours A. B. Seymour.
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2 [?]earwell Place, Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 13, 1887.
Prof C. E. Bessey: Dear Sir,
Will you kindly inform me if convenient, what [?] injury & [?] by [?] has been especially heavy or light in any given regions and if you think there is any definite selection between the prevalence of [?] and the amount of rain fall? Might heavy rain fall early in season and a dry time later produce an effect essentially different from the reverse of [two?]?
If you can reply without to greatly taxing your time, I shall be greatly obliged.
Respectfully yours, A. B. Seymour.
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Portageville N. Y. Sept 5/87
Prof. Bessey: Dear Sir:
I promised when I left Lincoln to let you hear how I was getting along; Well, botanically speaking, I haven't done much. I have been enjoying myself visiting & seeing the sights too much to do very much work in the botanical line. This is a splendid place for such work. Have found a goodly number of lichens, mosses, slime moulds, toadstools, cut-fungi &c. Have preserved a few of the latter two in alcohol. I have classified 25 flowers, the list of which I enclose. Have also collected asters, [solidagos?], ferns & grasses that will require more time than I can now give for classification.
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There is a great range in the habitat within a few miles of here. I am almost within sound of the Genesee Falls.
I classified my first orchid Saturday & hope to find more.
The following is my list of flowers — Cheloni glabra Collinsonia Canadensis Polygonum virginianum G[?] s[?] Hypericum corymbosum Eupatorium purpureum Cornus stolonifera Solanum Dulcamara Ranunculus acris Monarda didyma Pedicularis lanceolata Saponaria officinalis (?) Linaria vulgaris Lobelia syphilitica " Kalmii " inflata Antennaria margaritacea Epilobium [hirsutum?]
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Spiranthes graminea Var. Walteri. Gentiana crinita Verbascum Thapsus Echinospermum Lappula Calamintha Clinopodium Prunella vulgaris Campanula Americana Cacalia suaveolens
I have no doubt that I [sic.] can find as many more if I have time. Next Thursday I expect to go to Rochester & will go & see Bausch & Lomb's Store.
The woods here aer full of all sorts of fungi & other cryptograms. It makes me wish I could spend 4 months here instead of 4 weeks. Expect to return about the 15th.
Yours Truly Jared G Smith