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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY.
University of Colorado. JOHN GARDINER, B. Sc., PROFESSOR.
BOX 548, BOULDER, COLO.

Jan. 3rd 1889.

Dear Prof. Bessey,

I must apologize for not replying sooner to yours of the 20th. I have been at Denver during vacation visiting friends and "borrowing" the University at the meeting of the State Teachers' Association.

Please thank [?] Kingsley for his suggestion of Bell's "Comp. Anatomy". I sent for the book and I believe that it will suit me very well.

I hope you will get you Systematic Botany finished sooner than you seem to expect. But sooner than that I for one, and I believe many others, would like to see from your hand a laboratory manual to accompany your larger book. Of course, Bower and Strasburger and Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter, cover the ground pretty well, but I think that a book written specially for the purpose would be very useful, and ought to have a considerable sale.