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United States Consulate,
Jerusalem, Palestine,
via England & Brindisi,
June 9. 1888.

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey,
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Dear Sir:
I send you the enclosed
notes on " The Flora of Palestine,"
for the "American Naturalist,"
thinking they will prove of interest
to many.- I have been long
a contributor to its pages, &
perhaps you will therefore recall
my name, though coming from
this remote country. I have