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Granville, Putnam Co. Ill.
Feb. 16, 1888.

Prof. Bessey,
Dear Sir,

I received your favor of the 8th. I am grateful for your kind offer to name the grasses of Chase Co. Neb, for me. I will continue my work in collecting flowers as soon as I return to my homestead there. I will send you the grasses as they bloom, and other plants if you wish, -- or if I fail to name them. We have the "Buffalo Grass" and "Gramma," as you described them in "Forage Plants of the Prairies and Plains" in the Prairie Farmer last May. Do you wish specimens of