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EDITORS; 
JOHN M. COULTER, 
WABASH COLLEGE, CRAWF0RD8V1LLE, IND. 
CHARLES R. BARNES, 
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, WiS. 
J. C. ARTHUR, 
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LAFAYEAfE, INDi 
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My dear Dr. Wat son:-- 
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/oio’ist 11.1890 
Your letter of the 1st inst.came duly to hand and has had 
careful consideration. I had hoped that, the resources of the herbariiiTK,- 
were sufficient to afford you a salary of at least $1000, for I think 
you have worked Ion;; enouyh for a pittance. If YOUR salary does not 
exceed $2000 it v/ould be out of the question for ine to ask or expect 
more; yet I do not see how I can live on that sum in Cambridge. I 
thank you for your information on the subject of household expenses. 
Coupling that with what I know of the prices of provisions and -vTith 
the data that j-y friend Deane gives me I have concluded that it is not 
practicable for me to get along in C.with less than $2500. It is ev- 
dent that the herbarium cannot afford to pay this. The question then 
arises as to v/hether you would care to pay for part of my time. 
The President and the Regents of the University of Wisconsin ex- 
press themselves as very unwilling to let me go away. Rather than let 
me break away entirely th^/ say they will be willing to give me leave 
of absence for the third term. This would enable me to spend f ive 
and a half months at Cambridge and six and a hn,lf here. In addition t 
to the time actuall]/' spent in Cambridge I should be able to devote my 
leisure during the first two terms to work in thn lines you have named 
so that it vfould appear as the product of the money expended by the 
