Charles Bessey, Letters, 1888-1890

Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.

EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE. STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

S.M. TRACY, DIRECTOR.

Agricultural College, Miss. April 24th, 1890.

Dear Bessey:

Yours of 4/16 at hand. Of course I will sell duplicates if I cannot exchange, but would much prefer the latter, even if I receive specimens already in herbarium; as such dupli cates are valuable for foreign exchange. Can you not send such plants? I do no care for anything excepting grasses, sedges, and ferns. I have never sold speciments, and do not know what usual rates would be, but shall be satisfied with whatever you think is fair. I have laid out the grasses, and have added a few foreigner not on the list sent. I have so few sedges and ferns that I prefer to use them in exchange, rather than to sell them.

Yours as ever, signature

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE.

LINCOLN, NEBR.. July 21, 1890.

My Dear Doctor Vasey,

I have your of the 16thh inst. and hasten to reply; My assistant, Mr. Herbert J. Webber, is at work in the Marine Biological Laboratory at [Illegible] of August. Could you not arrange to have him take the examination at that place?

I have two-other good men who are available; they are Mr. T. A. Williams, of Weeping Water, Nebr., and Mr. A. F. Woods, of Lincoln. Either one would render you most excellent service, and I should be glad to have them considered candidates for the position.

Very truly Yours,

Charles E. Bessey

both these men may be addressed at Lincoln for the present, in my care.

Original in Smithsonian Institution Archives; Record Unit 220; U.S. Nat'l Museum; Division of Plant Records, 1870-1893 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE LINCOLN, NEBR., July 21, 1890. My Dear Doctor Vasey, I have yours of the 16thh inst. and hasten to reply; My assistant, Mr. Herbert J. Webber, is at work in the Marine Biolog ical Laboratory at .... .... of August. Could you not arrange to have him take the examination at that place? I have two other good men who are available ; they are Mr. T. A. Williams, of Weeping Water, Nebr., and Mr. A. F. Woods, of Lincoln. Either one would render you most excellent service, and I should be glad to have them considered candidates for the position. Very truly Yours, Charles E. Bessey Both these men may be addressed at Lincoln for the present, in my care. A.. July 24. 90

Lincoln Nebr June 2-1890 Univ. of Nebraska Dr. to H.J. Webber for supplies Fruit Jars .69 2 Crocks .60 2 Tin cans 1.40 Work (Soloter..y 1 hr.) .25 Freight 1.49 4.43

[diagonal writing]: Received J...ed-1890 H.J. Webber

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. ______ H. J. WEBBER, B.Sc., Assistant in Botany, 1020 G Street.

Lincoln, Neb.,......18... WOOD'S HOLL MASS, JULY 7 1890

My Dear Professor

We, Dr Kingsley and I are still afloat as they express it here. I am enjoying myself greatly. Collecting is improving, i.e things are comeing into fruit now. I put up a bottle of Nem alion multifidum with numerous cystocarps collected on the fourth. It is the queerest sea week I have ever seen. Have also prepaired little bottles of Chondrae crispus, Dasya elegare, Polyeiphonia nigrescens, Ceramium rubrum and Callithamnion seirosp ermum with tetraphores and cystocarps in the letter. Sea material as a whole has not yet reached the sexual stage. Dont believe I will be able to get any of the Laminarias fruiting I think it is to late. I am preserving in 50% Alcohol. I wrote to Dr Farlow in regard to this and he advises it as the best method of