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Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891
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MACMILLAN & CO.,
LONDON, and 112 FOURTH AVENUE,
New York, Nov 7th 1891
Dear Sir!-,
Permit me to call attention to a translation in English of professor [Solms-] [Laubache] work on "Fossil Botany" executed by H. E. F. Garnsey and revised by Professor Balfour which has just been issued by us price $4.50.
During recent years our line of publications suitable for use in the Bot anists reference library has been enriched by the issue of translations in English of the well known standard works by Dr Bary Goebel. Sachs and Strasburger and by the publication of original works by Bower [Vines] Etc. Etc. descriptions of which may be found in the accompanying catalogue.
We shall be pleased to quote terms for the supply of these books whether desired for use in the classroom or to aid in the formation of libraries on the subject, We are Yours respectfully Macmillan and Co.
Macmillan and [Leo.] .c
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SCHOOL OF METHODS
July 6 to July 24
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE- Supt. Monroe.
Sept. Monroe will give five talks on Elementary Science as the basis of language, drawing and from study, with special reference to plants, animals and minerals. There will be several lessons in the mounting of plants, dissection of animals and analysis of minerals. He will also give two lessons in history, with special reference to the teaching of this subject y means of supplementary reading.
PEDAGOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY- Supt. Keyes.
Supt. Keyes will give fifteen talks on the following topics: Psychology and its Relations to Pedagogics; The Mind and its Faculties, How Studied; Sermation and Perception; The Senses, Methods of Devel opment; Conception, its Relation to Education; Abstraction and Nature Study; Attention, the [Thesis] of Power; Judgment and its Cultivation; Association and its Laws; Memory, its laws and Improvement; The Reasoning Power and its Development; Imag nation and its Claim for Attention; The Emotions and their Rela tions to Education; Desire and Education; The Will.
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY- Supt. Monroe.
Supt. Monroe will also give a series of three talks on Methods of Teach ing Geography and several lessons in Sand Modelling and the making of Salt, Putty and Paper-Maché Maps.
DRAWING- Mr. C. C. Swofford.
1. Mr. Swofford will consider position, pencil-holding, drawing of lines, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and circles. 2. Estimating, viewing objects, representation in three views of rectang ular forms. 3. Working drawings, projections, sections, planes, elevations. 4. Circles, elliptical forms, [ovoid] vase forms. 5. Foreshortening and representation of forms in all positions, isometric drawing. 6. [Plotting] forms, conventionalizing, etc. 7. Ornamentation, [quatrefell], units of design, spirals, etc. 8. Shake and Shadows. 9. Perception, linear and aerial. 10. Application of form slowly and geometrical drawing to pictorial representation
ARITHMETIC- Mr. A. W. Plummer.
Mr. Plummer will consider each topics as the following: What Shall It Do for the Pupil? How Shall It Be Done? Notation and Numera tion; Fundamental Operations; Analysis; Factoring; Greatest Common Divisor; L. C. M.; Conciliation; Fractions, Decimals and Short Methods; Percentage, Proportion, involution and Evolu tion, [Meneration.]
KINDERGARTEN- Mrs. Nora D. Mayhew. [Frochel's] Gifts and Occupations. 1st Gift- (Halls) Form, Movement, Color. 2nd Gift- Sphere, Cylinder and Cube. 3rd Gift- Divided Cube. Paper folding, Sewing, Weaving, Paper-cutting, [Press] Work, Modelling.
MUSIC- Mrs. J. Powell Rice.
Mrs. Rice will drill upon some perception, developed by colors and unusual signs. She will give attention to development of [rope] work. Transpositions as taught in primary and grammar schools; How to use children's voices; How to develop part-singing; Tonic Sol-Fa.
CIVICS AND HISTORY- E. P. Rowell. Object of Government; Its Need; Its Relation to the People and their duty to it; Its Divisons and their Relationship.
PENMANSHIP- Mr. L. B. Lawson.
PHYSICAL CULTURE- Miss Helen Mar Bennett. Miss Bennett will give a special course to all who desire in the Delsarte system of Gymnastics.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
July 6 to Aug. 14
PHYSIOLOGY, ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, PHYSICS, BOT ANY AND ENTOMOLOGY- A. W. Plummer.
ARITHMETIC, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, GRAMMAR AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT- E. P. Rowell.
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References.
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H. B. Claflin Co., New York. John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago. Citizens Nat'l Bank, Des Moines, Ia. State Savings Bank, Des Moines, Ia. Lederer, Strauss & Co., Des Moines, Ia.
LOUIE MEYER, BROKER, MAKES SPECIAL IN BONDS, STATE, COUNTY AND CITY WARRANTS. ___________
Lincoln, Neb. 8/7 1891. Dear Prof
Any little fixing that has to be done by us you will greatly oblige us by having same done, & [Jan] & I can fix it up I am a busy man & some times hard to find-- [ ] L Meyer
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ferred to. We can furnish this in probably one week after you order is placed.
The set of weights S.803 will cost $6.75. We have not the extra 2 kilo weight in stock but can probably procure this for you, at any rate we can add the iron weight of this size.
We hope to be favored with your order.
Yours truly, James W. Queen & Co., By [JSStokes]
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Monsieur,
Je tiens pour mon devoir, de vous avertir, que le Dr. Carl Fisch, mon ancien collaborateur et assistant à l'Institut botanique, a été condamné à 1 1/2 ans de prison pour des fraudes très-graves. Renvoyé de la maison de correction ce trompeur semble être sur le point d'émigrer.
Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma con sidération la plus distinguée.
Erlangen (Allemagne), 14. Janv. 1891.
Dr. Max Reess Professeur de botanique.
Dear Sir,
I deem it my duty, to warn you and other botanists of Dr. Carl Fisch, my former Assistant. For frauds of a very infamous kind punished by imprisonement of 1 1/2 years, and now dismissed from the house of correction, this swindly is said to be emigrating.
Yours truely Erlangen, Germany, 14. Jan. 1891
Dr. Max Reess Professor of botany.
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W B & L (x)-5395-5000-4-00
No.____
Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew,
31st. Mar. 1891.
Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt this day of the contribution mentioned in the margin, made by you to the Royal Botanic Gardens, for which I beg to tender my best thanks.
I am,
SIR,
Your obedient Servant, W. T. Thiselton Dyer (signature) Director.
To C. E. Bessey Esq. Prof: of Botany University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska
Bulletins of the Agri cultural Experiment Station Nebraska Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15.
