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Original in Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation; Carnegie-Mellon Uni., Pitts, PA
Twentieth Century Botanists Collection

Coulter to Bessey 17 - IX - 1881

Botanical Gazette

2

Museum of
Wabash College

Crawfordsville, Ind., _______ 188_

Gulf and continue south the same western
line. That would add to the above list
Ind., [Tenn.?], Ark., Texas + Louisiana. I am
rather inclined to the former though there
are many reasons why it would be
useful to include Ind., [Tenn.?]. + Ark.

The work would be a composite affair,
different orders being assigned to the
most suitable [sic.] + available botanists,
some one of us of course to have general
oversight + direction examining the
make up, press work, etc. It would
necessarily be largely a compilation, but
a very useful one + if taken up by
some enterprising school firm would
rapidly win its way. Of course
all [each?] work would pass under the eyes
of Dr. Gray + Watson that the systematic
work of the whole country could go on
uniformly. I write to you now to
ask a full and candid opinion of