Wolcott, Iowa, Dec. 8, 1880.
HAUPT
Prof. Bessey,
Dear Sir:–
Your favor has been forwarded
me, and I regret that my answer
wil have to remain unsatisfactory.
I hav never found [?]
[typhina?] about here, and was
careles in giving it and one or
two others a place in my list in
Vol. 1, Academy of Science [?].,
from which Mr. Arthur took it.
I was then young, and included
everything that I had found
about Davenport and within 50
or 100 miles away from Davenp't,
and then sometimes depended
upon others. I found [?]
[typhina?] near Minneapolis, Minn.,
and examined it very carefully. There
on my downward trip, I found it
near L[?], Wis., I think. Then
Capt. W. P. Hall, the Miss. Valley explorer,
brought specimens of wood which were evidently
of the "[typhina?]", which he had [met?] in Wis.
near D[?]. He said there were plenty
on the Iowa side, above D[?], giving
the size of stem, –and hence I gave it.–
S[?] [?] was a similar case. I found
it in Minn., then in Iowa — and I thought
below D[?], but I could not be certain.
[Dr.?] Parry disputes it & I hav let it go.
Truly Yours — [?]. G. Haupt.
