| 239Department of the Interior
CENSUS OFFICE
[illegible]. Ala
Oct 8 1880
Prof C. E. Bessey
Ames Iowa
Dear Sir. I have just returned home
from my vacation [illegible] and have forked over the botany
which you were kind [illegible] to have had sent to me
Having been for ten years a pupil of [illegible]
and having been in his microscopic-botany class
during the whole time I find much of your part I of your book
[illegible] as [illegible] words and I am delighted to see that
much neglected part of the [illegible] of Plants placed within reach
of our [illegible]. In Part II also I find many [illegible]
acquaintances. I [illegible] you have done a good [illegible]
making this book which if [illegible] cannot fail to give
to students a [illegible] knowledge of [illegible] structure and relationship of the
plants he studies.
Very Truly yours, Eugene A. Smith | 239Department of the Interior
CENSUS OFFICE
[illegible]. Ala
Oct 8 1880
Prof C. E. Bessey
Ames Iowa
Dear Sir. I have just returned home
from my vacation [illegible] and have forked over the botany
which you were kind [illegible] to have had sent to me
Having been for ten years a pupil of [illegible]
and having been in his microscopic-botany class
during the whole time I find much of your part I of your book
[illegible] as [illegible] words and I am delighted to see that
much neglected part of the [illegible] of Plants placed within reach
of our [illegible]. In Part II also I find many [illegible]
acquaintances. I [illegible] you have done a good [illegible]
making this book which if [illegible] cannot fail to give
to students a [illegible] knowledge of [illegible] structure and relationship of the
plants he studies.
Very Truly yours, Eugene A. Smith |
