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Scientific and Medical Books, Minerals,
Shells, Fossils, Eyes, Pins, etc.

For Sale by A. E. Foote, M. D.,
Prof. Min. and Chem. Fellow Am. Ass'n Adv.
Science, Life Member Am. Museum Nat. History,
New York and Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Science,

1223 Belmont Avenue, Philada.

Specimen copy 32 pages Illus. Naturalists'
Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin sent free.

Apr. 8. 86.

Prof. C. E. Bessey
My Dear Sir:

Thanks for the kind
letter I received from you to-
day. There is no prospect in
the Forestry Dept. at present
as Fernow does not approve
of [solorical?] agents but prepares
to pay, and very little
too, for such special work as
he wants done. There are however
three openings which
promise some thing for me.
I have applied for the
Chair of Geology here in
Univ. of Penna, perhaps a
presumptuous thing, but