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State University of Iowa.
Chair of
Botany and Systematic Zoology.
T. H. McBride, Professor.

Iowa City, Feb. 27 1886.

Prof. C. E. Bessey –
Dear Sir —

Prof. Arthur in Bot.
Gazette does the State Univ of Iowa
injustice by omission. We have
her[e?], thanks to the liberalit of
the state legislature two yrs. since
a magnificent building 112º x 72º
one half of the first floor [?]
to Botany, the entire building
to natural science. We have a
botanial laboratory which will
compose with any in the country,
a laboratory filled with slate-
topped operating tables to accommodate
25 students and already
furnished with twenty
compound microscopes, a
first class micro[?] and
other essential pieces of ap-