University of Nebraska-Lincoln Discovery Documents

All Communications in reference to the business must be addressed to the firm.

James W Queen & Co.

MATHEMATICL OPTICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS

924 Chestnut Street Philadelphia

Philadelphia 11 mo 19 1880

Prof C. E. Bessey

Dear Sir

Your note of the [illegible] is at hand. Not having any complete sets on hand at this moment we have requested Dr. J. J. M. [illegible] of start Madison Iowa who has one of these sets from us to send it to you. We hope you will be pleased with it as we have been to considerable trouble to get a set of objects such as we thought suitable for illustration of structure suitable both as regards subject and quality of preparation. After collecting con siderable material for another

party and waiting a long time he failed us. The person who has now prepared them for us has done very well but in some of these slide is not so successfull as we desire: we hope however that the new [illegible] which will probably contain some can perhaps all prep arations of anothe rmaker will be much better. At any rate we hope to improve and would be very much pleased to receive any suggestion either as to suitable subject or methods of prepar ation for the tissues we settled upon as being desirable to show were selected by the writer without consultation with any experience botanist.

Yours Very Truly [illegible] E. Pennock

No. 1. Not satisfactory for the purposes specified. " 2. The staining is here an [estimation?] to [study?] rather than a help. No. 3. This good. No. 4. [?]; too thick and over stained. No. 5. This good. No. 6. This pretty good. Contains many reticulated [?] also. " 7 Too thick. No 8. The two sections not taken from equally old parts of stain. The longitudinal–section too thick for study. The cross section very good. No 9. Too thick. The common impression of preparations that section of [few?] [stains?] must be made diagonally is an [?] one. There should be for study good cross and longitudinal sections, as in the care of all other tissuses of plants. No 10. A very good specimen so far as it goes, but it should be supplemented by a cross section of [each?] part of stain as these longitudinal sections were taken from. No 11. Pretty good so far as it goes; a little too thick. Should have a longitudinal section. No 12. Good. " 13. Good, although a bit of epidermis peeled off from the leaf, and un-stained would be [much?] better. and far less troublesome to prepare. No 14 Good No 15 Good, but same criticism hold as for no 13. " 16 "

No 17. Too thick for the best study. 18 good 19 20 Excellent 21 Good. Although it would have been better not to have [illegible] the cell. Our specimen might have [illegible] with a very weak solution of Iodine and another [illegible] 22. Fair 23. Very good. 24. No good crystalith [illegible]

POSTAL CARD.

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Prof. C. E. Bessey Ames Iowa

[illegible] S.C. July 25 1880

Prof. C. E. Bessy

Dear Sir

Your letter 923 [illegible] is just received ordering ten 4 [illegible]. 9 Fungi Americans for your Ag. College.

[illegible] also [illegible] (new) 4 [illegible] first [illegible] Fungi [illegible] ([illegible] values and of [illegible]) which 4 will sell at $6.00 [illegible] last [illegible] set [illegible] Ag. [illegible] yen years ago at $10. [illegible] (Fungi American) $5.20 per [illegible].

Herb[illegible] Iowa Ag. College to H W [illegible] [illegible] S. C. Augst 4th 1880 To To [illegible] I, II, III, and IV "Fungi Americani" $20.80/100

[illegible] S. E. [illegible] Prof C. E. Bessy Dear Sir

I have today [illegible] by [illegible] I-II-III-IV of Fungi Americani for Iowa Ag. College and [illegible]

POSTAL CARD. Write the address on this side- the message on the other

Prof C. E. Bessey Ames Iowa

[illegible] SC. Sept 9 1880

My Dear Sir

You reference to the "exact date" of publication of [illegible] III and IV Fungi Am. [illegible] Corker letters to [illegible] state in NW1878 [illegible] that be in hanging [illegible] 24 [illegible] out off my city. You it dated 1879- So [illegible] in [illegible] 1879.

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IOWA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

SECRETARYS OFFICE

Des Moines, Iowa Feb 2 1880

Prof C. E. Bessey

Dear Sir: I did not happen to see your note in the Register of Jan. 25th until today: and I want to thank you for it. [illegible] Paige would some of our members believe that he could and would do great things for our state museum project if we would only give him a "send off" as President of our association to keep him in his pro posed "scientific" (!) [illegible] around the world in the interest of the Chicago Times. And enough if our mem bers were [illegible] by this high pretentious promise of his to make a majority and elect him to the nominal Presi dency. (It is only nominal for he has never once been present at a mee ting of our society.) I offered the scheme at the time as[illegible] and a fraud: I know it was a grave mistake and I am quite sure it couldn't be played on us again.

Many of our own members who voted for Paige do not hesi tate to say they consider him "a kind" yet because they [illegible] induced to believe that if we gave him the refute