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Medical College building
Oakland. Cal.
Jan, 14, 88.

My dear Prof. Bessey,

Your favor of the 29.th. Dec. came duly to hand, containing your desiderata in grasses.

Because you seemed to desire grasses very much and to make my contributions as large as possible, I resolved to try to accommodate you, so began hunting up the species distributed into 50 bundles and packed away for storage!

We have been compelled to move the herbarium 4 times since [?] from New Orleans, and