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E. S. BASTIN, M. A., -Residence-
Prof of Botany & Materia Medica. 8 Park Ave., between 33d and 34th Sts.
-and-
Director of the Microscopical Laboratory
CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10 1888

Prof. C. E. Bessey,

My dear Sir; -

I learn from Mr. Euyelhorer that you had not received the copy of my "Elements" that was sent to the American Naturalist soon after its publication. It was supposed that, being editor of the botanical dept. of that Journal the book would fall into