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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE,
STATE AGRICULTURAL
AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. Plumb

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
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C. S. PLUMB, B. S., PROF. OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY.
C. L. NEWMAN, B. S., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR.

Knoxville, Sept. 28 1888.

Dr. C. E. Bessey,
Lincoln, Neb.
My Dear Sir_ --- I sent you some time since, a request that you should furnish me biographical information for a biographical directory of agricultural scientists. No one at your station has answered this circular. I wish to call your attention to the wisdom of answering this circular, on the part of yourself and assistants, so that Nebraska may be properly represented in its pages. The returns are already so full that there will be but little [nine] delay before putting the manuscript in the printer's hands. Already almost 200 of our experiment station workers have sent in short biographical notes of themselves.
Some station directors have [ ] complete data of their station staff. I should be