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porary frame building for Biol. Laboratory, I am so cramped for room.
I have a class of 11 in General Biology in college - not bad considering this is the first year it is offered. Most, if not all, will go on to Botany or Zoology next semester. I am using your larger book in the former class; but I am in despair about a text-book in Zoology; Claus & Sedgwick is too expensive, and Huxley is rather old. I think I shall be reduced to using the latter.
In addition to the specimens, mentioned in the Catalogue, we have got some 60 or 70 algae in alcohol from Naples, 200 lichens (Calkins), and Underwood's Century of Illustrative Fungi. I have added all our specimens with the exception of the Colo. plants.
I hope in ten years to have as good a botanical department as yours is now if my lungs and strength hold out. But at present it is a [day] of small things, and one works under considerable disadvantages.
I have had some correspondence with Prof.