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mdierks at Jun 16, 2020 11:48 AM
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Cars leave Ninth and Green Streets,
Philadelphia, every hour.
Horse Cars connect with the cars to
Germantown, direct to Upper
Church Street.
Horse Cars along Eighth Street, direct
to Upper Church Street.
Chestnut Hill Cars to Gorgas Lane Station,
is ten minutes' walk from
the Nursery.

Germantown Nurseries,
Thomas Meehan, Proprietor.
Office, Upper Church & Chew Sts., Germantown,
Near Philadelphia.

Feby 28 1881

Dear Prof. Bessey,

I trust you will pardon me
for hoping that you will not
continue as in March no. of
the Naturalist the issue of
capitals in no specific names
derived from proper ones, as
the Zoologists are doing. I think
[?] botanist will follow [?], as
I have frequently heard the
Zoological practice deprecated
in the least botanical circles.
Of course a specific name is
but an adjective, and in
ordinary grammatical [?]
structure we [?] [?] –
[hence?] an adjective with
a capital. But [sic.]
language is given for utility
and rules should be
governed by this law of

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