| 511SOUTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION.
DEPARTMENT OF
FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE AND BOTANY.
CHAS. A. KEFFER, PROFESSOR IN CHARGE.
TOM A. WILLIAMS, INSTRUCTOR IN BOTANY.
Brookings, S. D. 7/22 1891.
Dear Dr. Bessey,
Suppose you are taking some rest after your years' work. You are making so many changes down there that I shall hardly know you. Glad to see it It was needed. You can now have more time for the work that we are all anxious to see the results of.
We are getting along very well. The weather is not so beastly hot here, in fact one can study most of the time with out any discomfort.
Have reason to feel that my work has been fairly successful. We are getting in fairly good shape for work. Got my Saccardo and stendel not long ago. Have also Engelmann and the papers of Gray & Watson.
The board gave us $250 for a trip to the West in August. Two from the Zool. dep. & Two from our own. It is rather late in the season but hope to get some good things Think that I would rather go at that time now than at any other.
Our flora is a very interesting one. Old friends turn up in all sorts of places and new things appear when least expected. One is continually being surprised. Have found most all of | 511SOUTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION.
DEPARTMENT OF
FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE AND BOTANY.
CHAS. A. KEFFER, PROFESSOR IN CHARGE.
TOM A. WILLIAMS, INSTRUCTOR IN BOTANY.
Brookings, S. D. 7/22 1891.
Dear Dr. Bessey,
Suppose you are taking some rest after your years' work. You are making so many changes down there that I shall hardly know you. Glad to see it It was needed. You can now have more time for the work that we are all anxious to see the results of.
We are getting along very well. The weather is not so beastly hot here, in fact one can study most of the time with out any discomfort.
Have reason to feel that my work has been fairly successful. We are getting in fairly good shape for work. Got my Saccardo and stendel not long ago. Have also Engelmann and the papers of Ggay & Watson.
The board gave us $250 for a trip to the West in August. Two from the Zool. dep. & Two from our own. It is rather late in the season but hope to get some good things Think that I would rather go at that time now than at any other.
Our flora is a very interesting one. Old friends turn up in all sorts of places and new things appear when least expected. One is continually being surprised. Have found most all of |
