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THE SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY.
WILLIAM TRELEASE.
PROFESSOR IN CHARGE.

ST LOUIS MO., Oct 8, 1891

[?] C. E. Bessey
Lincoln

Dear Professor:

I send you with this the catalogue part of my appendix. You will oblige me by making such notes, additions or altorations as you see fit and returning as soon as possible. I present it at the reading meeting one week from next monday (Oct. 19) and I desire to present it to the council several days before the meeting, so the necessity of haste.

Please ask Rydberg to supply the authority for Nasturium palustre var, ovale. I do not find it handily and he likely knows exactly where to put his hands on the description.

I see you and Mr Woods presented a paper to the association on transpiration. I should be pleased