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Officers S. M. Barker, President. R. W. Furnas, Secretary. L. A. Kent, Treasurer.
Board of Managers Ed. McIntire, Chr., E. N. Grennell, M. Dunham, H. B. Nicodemus, J. R. Dinsmore.
State Board of Agriculture State Fair held at Lincoln, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889. 1886, Sept. 10th to 17th.
Secretary's Office.
Brownville, Nebraska, 1886.
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advise you that I will ask the Legislature for compensation for services at New Orleans. Before, during and since the Exposition, I have given the state full two years of service, for which I have not rec'd one cent, beyond my board while at New Orleans, and that, at no time exceeding $2.50 per day. I will ask you and others who were there, to aid with "kind words." But more when we meet. hsall want, when we meet, also to talk over my coming Annual Report, and know of you, what dates I can have for the Industrial College etc. etc.
Yours truly Robt. W. Furnas
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Officers. President, T. T. Lyon, South Haven. Vice President, W. K. [Gisnor?], Jackson. Secretary, Chas. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, S. M. [Pearnall?]., Grand Rapids. Librarian, Thos. H. [Forster?], Lansing. Executive Board. E. H. Scott, Ann Arbor. C. A. Sessions, M[?]. W. K. G[?], Jackson. H. W. Davin, [Lapeer?]. James Satterlee, Lansing. J. N. Stearns, K[?].
Michigan State Horticultural Society.
Secretary's Office, Grand Rapids, Mich. May 26 1886
My Dear Bessey.
Kindly send me a letter which shall state concisely your views of the style of botany it is best to teach young people in agricultural colleges. We are expecting to follow [several?] pursuits for a [launchboard?]. I mueant to use it and a number of others in next number of Mich. Horticulturist.
Your old [?] Garfield
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U. S. Grant Boys' School N. E. [cov.?] 17th & Pine Sts., Philad'a, Jan. 13th, 1886.
Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Dear Sir:
I received, some time ago, through Holt & Co. of New York, a copy of your "Botany," which I have found of immense service in my studies. As this book was send by your request, I owe you a debt which I have never canceled. If you are not the possessor of a copy of my "House Sparrow", I will take great pleasure in sending it so you, feeling that, as it is the last of its edition, you will appreicate it. Have you a photograph of yourself that you can spare
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for my [allure?] of scientists? Will send mine on receipt of the same. Hoping an early reply,
I remain Sincerely Yrs., Thomas G. Gentry.
P. S.: Have nearly completed a book on the "Botany of Philaelphia['s?] [Vicinity?], which I expect to have ready upon the return of spring. Then will sell to our Philadelphia teachers, and I have the assurance of a goodly number of subscribers. Saw, recently, in the library of Prof. Cope, your last work. At what price is it [granted?], and by wh[?] publishers?
T. G. G.
