st, Joseph' s Church, 

 Schenect-^dy, N. Y, June 18, %^ 



Dear Dr. Engelmann J 



At the request of a gardener living in Alhany, I am sending you by mail 

 the branch of a western Abies , which a man i.s cultivating in his garden, with 

 the request to give me the botanical name. 



May I in the future in similar cases send you doubtful specimens to 

 be identified? Recently the gentlemen in Boston declined a similar 

 request (because of too much work. ) 



Wishing you for your advanced age an iron health, a happy disposition 

 and stirring strength for the best of science, I am grate fully, 



Your devoted, 



J. H. Wibbe, Dr, Ph,. 



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