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Section of Vegetable Pathology.

U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Division of Botany,
Washington, D. C., March 8th 1887

My dear Prof. Bessey.

Thanks for your favor of the 7th ult.
and also for the Chancellors report of your
University. You certainly have been most industrious
during the past two years and accomplished
much.

I know you will be glad to learn that
here, some progress has been made.
Congress appropriated for the Botanical Division

for 1885-6, $3000—Salaries of Botanist and assistant botanist,

for 1886-7 {$3200— " " " " " "
{$5000—for investigations &c. of which $4166.66 for Mycology.

for 1887-8 {$8440.—for salaries. Sect. Veg. Pathol. $4400.
{$7000—for investigations &c Sect. Veg. Pathol. $5000
} total $9400.

Total for the Division for the fiscal year ending June 30
1888, $15440. – or $12440. over that for 1885-6.

One credit of all this belongs to the Present Commissioner.
– The Bill of appropriations for this Department,
just passed, recognizes a "Section of Vegetable
Pathology," and a "Chief" for said section, and

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