Conway [MacMillan?]
[?] Ap. 25th 1887
Dear Professor Bessey
This is Monday morn.
[???] will be the first day of my
last month here, and then for home again.
—f There is not much news to
tell. You may be interested [??] now that
I have been [?] successful so far as
my work. My classes complain of [?]
to [?]. This you see is in direct conflict
with preconceived ideas of botanical methods
and in the [?] of their complaints they
[?] the [?] of something new. My
Freshman Literary and Classical have finished
that text book and are now working on
plants. I have them get all notes of things
[?] them of, make drwaings and descriptions
and hand the whole in to me. This leaves
[the boys?] [free?] for [going?] on past work, "short talks
on great subjects" and that sort of thing. I
was pleased to find that fully one-half of the
class considered a [?] a [?] or gourd
fruit until cutting into it. They are also
delighted to find that apples have some definite
structure. Previously they had supposed that
there was apple and seeds in it. Now they
