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Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.

EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPHING OFFICE.

STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

S.M. TRACY, DIRECTOR.

Agricultural College, Miss. March 8th, 1890.

Dear Prof. Bessey:

I have duplicates of about three hundred
species of grasses, with a few ferns and sedges, which I want to
exchange. Do you want any of them? Have you a list of your
duplicates? Did I ever send you any of my western fungi? If not
I will do so soon, and can add a few new things from here. This
is the richest collecting ground I have ever seen, but am so busy
with other work that I do not find time for half I want to do.

What is the "Chicago Correspondence University" which gives
your name as one of the faculty? I want Ph. D. but do not quite
understand the plan of the institution, and shall be glad if you
will give particulars.

Yours as ever,
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