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normal can be obtained. I wish
to hurry up the publication
as to distribute extras as soon
as possible.

The chair of Botany in the
Univ. of Ohio has just been filled,
and, although I thought I was
as certain of the position as one
is of living through the coming
day, I have just heard of my
defeat by a man of Dayton, Ohio,
who was supported by the state
Hort. Soc. and had various other
backing. I go home next week
to attend the wedding of my sister,
shall probably soon after visit
Minneapolis to see what can be done
in that direction.

I have just had bound a complete
set of the reports of C. H. [Peck?] to the N. Y.
Nat. Hist. Mus. It makes a thick volume
of which I am proud.

Yours [truly?]
J. C. Arthur