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Original in the Nebraska State Historical Society, Robert Furnas Collection
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
LINCOLN, NEB. Oct. 26th 89. 18
Hon. R. W. Furnas,
Brownville, Nebr.,
My Dear Sir,
I enclose receipt for warrant which came a few days ago. I am very much obliged to you for your promptness in remitting. I expect to have a very full report for you and feel sure that the Society will not regret the expenditure of the money.
It is possible that I may have to draw upon the remaining $50.00 before I get through, but do not it at present.
I hope to see you during the week and will talk over the matter a little more fully.
Very truly, Charles E. Bessey.
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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.
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I have just bought a herbarium of 500 [?]; belonging to the late Prof. Cassidy of the State Agr. College. It contains a good many of Curtus's specimens and many from Russia, Siberia and other parts of Europe and Asia. I have now more than doubled our herbarium, 1500 specimens in all. We'll get it up to 30,000 yet!
The Univ. of Pennsylvania is helping me greatly with Zoological material, which I cannot otherwise easily get. They send an expedition next May to the Bahamas, my old cruising -- ground to collect material and to hunt up relics of the Lucayans, and to follow out Columbus' courses. A number of colleges are joining; unfortunately we cannot spare the money. Can you not send a [?]? I suppose, however, that they have already written to you. I should like very much to pay you a visit again, but I do not see much prospect of it before the summer. I think of going to Minnesota then, and might call on you en route; but it is doubtful if I can go. Palmer, our chemist and I have some thoughts of getting up a Summer School of Science here, for the benefit of the school- teachers especially, and if our plans materialize we may not be able to get away for