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Prof. Bessey Ames Iowa

JOHN SCOTT

Nevada Iowa

Dec 11 1880

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[illegible] looking up water plants such as grow in fresh water ponds and would [illegible] food for German [illegible] I meet with "frog-shuttle"-an alga and [illegible] satisfy myself as to identity. Can you help me and to find it or any other gelatinous plant for such a purpose? I wish to stock a pond.

Yours Truly [illegible]

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Prof. Bessey Ames Iowa

Nevada Iowa 12 17 1880.

Thanks for your [illegible] I will stock some of the water with the growth you describe.

There is another growth that it is found in some of the ponds on Skunk Bottom that grows to great length and in immense quantities that I think I will get. If it is a fish food it will be of great use. I [illegible] not known what it is. I see that [illegible] gives [illegible] as the name of the [illegible]

Return to DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., If not delivered within 10 days.

Professor C. E. Bessey, Ph. D., Iowa Agricultural Coll., Ames, Iowa.

University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill, [Sr.6.] 17 August 1880

Bessey, My dear sir:

I received from your publishers, a few days since, a copy of your new [Botany]. I thank you very much for requesting them to send it. Being just now employed as a Special Agt. of the Census to investi gate the [Mica] Interests of this State. I have only had opportunity to glance at the work. I am very favora boy impressed with what I have read and when the pressure of business is over - a few weeks hence - will ex amine it carefully. I think it probable that I shall adopt it in one of my advanced classes.

Very [highly]

F. M. [Commander]

Prof. Geol. L[?] + Botany U.R.C Prof. Bot + [Physiology] in Med. Dept

Eugene S. Smith, PH.D., State Geologist Tuscaloosa, - - Alabama

Dr. C. E. Bessey Iowa Agricultural Ames,

Ecological Survey of Alabama

University of Alabama

Tallahassee Fla. Aug 25 1880

Dr. C. E. Bessey

Dear Sir

Yours of Au 11 values me here when I saw [illegible] information [illegible] for the [illegible] report of [illegible]. Your book has been received in [illegible] and I shall be glad to [illegible] your request on my [illegible] to that place in [illegible] that may be too late for your purposes. if so [illegible] me at [illegible] Jacksonville Fla. and I will have the book [illegible]. I have [illegible] printed a preliminary [illegible] of Ala. plants which I shall have sent to you.

Very truly yours

Eugene A. Smith

Department of the Interior CENSUS OFFICE [illegible]. Ala Oct 8 1880

Prof C. E. Bessey

Ames Iowa

Dear Sir. I have just returned home from my vacation [illegible] and have forked over the botany which you were kind [illegible] to have had sent to me Having been for ten years a pupil of [illegible] and having been in his microscopic-botany class during the whole time I find much of your part I of your book [illegible] as [illegible] words and I am delighted to see that much neglected part of the [illegible] of Plants placed within reach of our [illegible]. In Part II also I find many [illegible] acquaintances. I [illegible] you have done a good [illegible] making this book which if [illegible] cannot fail to give to students a [illegible] knowledge of [illegible] structure and relationship of the plants he studies.

Very Truly yours, Eugene A. Smith

Return to UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, ANN ARBOR, Mich., if not delivered within 10 days.

Prof. C. E. Bessey Ames, Iowa