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Office of
The Microscope.
An Illustrated Monthly Journal Devoted
to Microscopical Science.

83 Lafayette Avenue.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 2nd 1886

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey
Lincoln. N.

Dr Sir:

I thank you very much for
your kind letter lately received.
I desire also to thank you for
your little work on botany published
by Holt, – although I had seen
it before, it was not until today
that I appreciated its merits.
The fact is, I have been attempting
to give my wife a little instruction
in botanical microscopy, and have
not found just the book for her
until yours was picked up and
purchased today, being the filling
for a "long felt want." — I