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[illegible] Univ.
Nashville [illegible]
Aug 16th 1880
Prof. C. E. Bessey

Dear Sit

Your [illegible]
of Aug. 11th The Botany
[illegible] in due time. I have
not had time to examine
it so as to [illegible] prepared
to criticize it as you invite
me to do but so far [illegible]
I have looked over it I
hav ebeen [illegible]
with the book. Your plan
differs from that of our
[illegible] text looks and
in a [illegible] in the right
[illegible]

Had it come in [illegible]
I would have put it in