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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN.
Department of Botany.
on the public printer.
noval [word] for that is some times unpleasant. But I must have the plants, may be you can suggest a way.
My thanks,
Charles E. Bessey
P. S. Yes, I should be very glade to have the European [word]
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Original in Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; Carnegie-Mellon Uni., Pitts., PA Twentieth Century Botanists Collection
In sending specimens of plants for investigation it is desirable to have the leaves. Flowers, and fruit, and, in the case of bulbous plants, the [buthe?]. also, When they are sent from a distance it is best to prepare the specimens by drying them under pressure between folds of absorbent paper, otherwise the parts shrink and break so as to be hardly recognizable. When the dried plants are sent they should be protected from breakage in the mail by being inclosed between pieces of stuff pasteboard. Packages weighing less than four pounds can be sent by mall at the rate of one cent per ounce. Write the name of the send on the outside. In the letter accompanying the specimens state where collected, the date, and any other particulars of the plant. whether reputed poisonous, pestiferous, medicinal, or useful.
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
DIVISION OF BOTANY,
Washington, D. C., March 11, 1887.
Prof C. E. Bessey
My dear [Sir?],
I had a drawing of the [Poor audience?] made from your specimens, but our engraver was so occupied with work needed immediately for the Annual Report that I could not get it engraved, and therefore I had the clerk include that one is "Agricultural Grasses" I for one of the [electrotypes?] to be and you. I presume you have received then [are?] this. I send you a package of foreign grasses to day, and will send another soon. The Bill for enlarging the Dept. of Agr. and making its chief a Cabinet Office did not finally pass Congress, but probably will do a next Congress. I would like to have your opinion as to any new line of work for the Botanical Division. Mr [Crogien?] will do what he can on cultivated plants, but our appropriation is to small. We ought to be able to do field work in the way of in- [?]tion of the plans of special or unexplored regions, as for instance are should be able to send a [Botenist?] to Alaska to harm its [?] or to such other parts of the country as needed explanation.
Yours truly [Ms Vary?]
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