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Crawfordsville, [Sd] Aug. 24 80
Prof. C. E. Bessey:
Dear Sir:
I have received note-
fication of the mailing of your Botany from
Holt Co., but have not received the book
yet. I am well acquainted with it however
through copies received at Cambridge during
my recent visit[]. With very decided
opinions regarding the study of physiological
botany, you may be assured that I welcome
this new departure. [As] exactly the thing I
want. It goes this coming term, into
my laboratory class in physiology []
greatly simplific, my work, for it saves
some of the lecture drudgery. Some lecturing,
of course, I will have to give, for what
honest teacher does not?, but I can now
give them to pupils whose knowledge has
been based on your simplified physiology
I imagine their attachments [will] be much
more rapid satisfactory. My only criti-
cism is, that the two parts of the book
do not seem to be belong together. Both are
valuable, and the last one specifically unique,
but they will never be wanted at the
same time. My class will study
the first part, but there is neither time
or place for teh second and at the bulkier.
Some of our courses are large enough
to include 2 or 3 terms work in botany,

Crawfordsville, [Sd] Aug. 24 80
Prof. C. E. Bessey:
Dear Sir:
I have received note-
fication of the mailing of your Botany from
Holt Co., but have not received the book
yet. I am well acquainted with it however
through copies received at Cambridge during
my recent visit[]. With very decided
opinions regarding the study of physiological
botany, you may be assured that I welcome
this new departure. [As] exactly the thing I
want. It goes this coming term, into
my laboratory class in physiology []
greatly simplific, my work, for it saves
some of the lecture drudgery. Some lecturing,
of course, I will have to give, for what
honest teacher does not?, but I can now
give them to pupils whose knowledge has
been based on your simplified physiology
I imagine their attachments [will] be much
more rapid satisfactory. My only criti-
cism is, that the two parts of the book
do not seem to be belong together. Both are
valuable, and the last one specifically unique,
but they will never be wanted at the
same time. My class will study
the first part, but there is neither time
or place for teh second and at the bulkier.
Some of our courses are large enough
to include 2 or 3 terms work in botany