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SOUTH 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
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SOUTH 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., ________________1891. the aquatic plants common to Nebr. and quite a number of new ones. For a socalled dry state Dak. is remarkably rich in aquatic forms. Have found two [charas] and oedogonium tc. in abundance. [Bruni] surprise was complete as well as pleasant. My next term's work will be more pleasant than the last I think. Have been promised a raise in salary next year but just now the board is talking economy again so don't know whether it will materialize or not. Well I wish you a good summer's rest. Give my regards to Mrs. Bessey and the other U. of N. people. Very Resp'ly Thos.A.Williams
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SOUTH 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., 9/7 1891
Dr. C. E. Bessey Lincoln Nebr. Dear Professor: Am back again at work. School was in progress when we returned. Had a very pleasant trip and was quite successful so far as specimens are concerned. Got a lot of lichens some of them very fine. We spent some times in the Hills. Then spent a week in the Basin of the badlands. Think the trip was very profitable to me not counting the specimens collected We found about 500 [ ] I think on the trip not counting many that I noted out of flowers & fruit. We drove nearly or quite 400 miles. I suppose you are all busy now with the fair. Should like very much to be present. Our school starts out well this year attendance good My class will be light this time only a small class of Juniors in embrylogy & Physiology. Think I shall enjoy the work How does the Uni start this year? and how is the book progressing. Dr Kellerman writes me that he leaves Kansas to accept the Chair of Botany at Columbus Ohio. Am sorry to see Profs Howard & Edgren leave [tho ]N.S.U. but I suppose they are bettering themselves.