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Department of the Interior.
Official Business
U. S. Entomological Commission
If not delivered in ten days to be returned to
A. S. Packard, Jr. Providence, R. I.

Providence
Aug
11
1 PM
R. I.

Prof. C. E. Bessey.
Ames,
Iowa.

The solution of the [?] [?] Bulletin is exhausted nearly, but please [continues below...]

Edited by
Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr.
and
Prof. E. D. Cope,

Associate Editors
Dr. Elliott Coues, Department of Mammals and Birds,
Prof. O. T. Mason, Department of Anthropology,
Ellis H. Yarnall, [?] Dep. of Geography and Travels,
Dr. R. H. Ward, Department of Microscopy,

[continues from above...] send me the names of 12-15 most important [?], & [?] [?] send them.

The American Naturalist.
A Popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History and Travel.
Letters on business connected with the American Naturalist should be addressed to the Publishers, McCalla &
Stavely, 437 [?] [Thock?] Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Terms of Naturalist,
$4.00 a year.

Providence, R. I., Aug. 10 1880

My Dear Sir.

The publishers sent me a copy
of your Botany, and I write to congratulate
you on so successfully completing the task. I
have looked it over with some care – and I
much like the plan and its execution. The trouble
with [Scazi Botamis?] is that they refer mainly to the
[Honecing] plants – your book is the first American one to give a
person like myself who has a very superficial
knowledge of the subject, a clear conception of the
vegetable kingdom as a whole. I shall venture
myself to notice it for the Naturalist, instead of
giving it to [?] [?] – specialist to review.

By the way would you feel like editing the
Botanical department of the Naturalist? The duties
are to adjudicate on the articles sent for publication
and to prepare each month a brief résumé of botanical
papers especially in general, structural &
physiological botany. I will send a copy of the magazine
& all the botanical exchanges, & give you all the

[side note:] Mr. J. S. Gardner's address could be reached by addressing Care of [Messi?] McMillan & Co. London.

Department of the Interior.
Official Business
U. S. Entomological Commission
If not delivered in ten days to be returned to
A. S. Packard, Jr. Providence, R. I.

Providence
Aug
11
1 PM
R. I.

Prof. C. E. Bessey.
Ames,
Iowa.

The solution of the [?] [?] Bulletin is exhausted nearly, but please [continues below...]

Edited by
Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr.
and
Prof. E. D. Cope,

Associate Editors
Dr. Elliott Coues, Department of Mammals and Birds,
Prof. O. T. Mason, Department of Anthropology,
Ellis H. Yarnall, [?] Dep. of Geography and Travels,
Dr. R. H. Ward, Department of Microscopy,

[continues from above...] send me the names of 12-15 most important [?], & [?] [?] send them.

The American Naturalist.
A Popular Illustrated Magazine of Natural History and Travel.
Letters on business connected with the American Naturalist should be addressed to the Publishers, McCalla &
Stavely, 437 [?] [Thock?] Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Terms of Naturalist,
$4.00 a year.

Providence, R. I., Aug. 10 1880

My Dear Sir.