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chequer and the Missouri river admittiug, I will be with you at Lex- 

 ington. Will send you a paper in time so that if I cannot go it at least 

 will be there. There is a wintry spell upon us just now. 



SAM'L. MILLER. 



St. Louis, Mo., l^ov. 18, 1886. 



Dear Sir — I will try to be with you on the 9th (Thursday), my 

 University classes prevent me from getting away before Wednesday 

 night. I am too busy to prepare a paper, but if you wish, will have a 

 word of good cheer. I shall come to meet your members and to listen 

 rather than to talk. Yery truly, 



WM. TEELEASE. 



KiRKwooD, Mo., December 30, 1880. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir — I have been prevented by illness from completing my 

 entomological notes in time to send them to you at Westport. I am 

 better to-day however, and will try to get them ready to mail to Lex- 

 ington to-morrow so that they will be awaiting you on your arrival at 

 that place. I am very glad that you have the promise of a talk on 

 Fungi from Prof. Trelease. It will no doubt be very interesting and 

 instructive. I should like very much to attend the meeting at Lexing- 

 ton, but do not think it will be possible for me to do so. Hope you 

 will have a very good and profitable time. 



• Yours respectfully, 



MARY E. MURTFELDT. 



Michigan State Horticultural Society. 

 Secretary's Office. 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., October 18, 1885. 



Friend L. A. Goodman: 



My Dear Sir — If we have attained any success in Michigan Horti- 

 culture worth publishing to the world, it has been the result of assimi- 

 lating and using that which we have absorbed from the successful 

 practice of others. We are still following that scheme and seek to get 

 all the information possible from those who are laboring in the same 

 field we are. As contributing to this purpose I wish to get some in- 

 formation from you concerning the work of your State society the past 

 year. I want to place in my forthcoming volume an epitome of current 



