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Mr, Sereno Y/atson, 
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Dear Sir: 
Your favor of the 8th is at hand this morning, and we are 
very much pleased with your favorable comments on the Tourist's Edi- 
tion of Gray's Manual. 
This book has been received favorably by botanists who have 
seen it, and we are endeavoring to call the attention of specialists 
to this form of the book. The sales of the Manual should be consid 
erably increased by reason of the adaptation of the work to the use 
of the field botanist by this compact and convenient fom of publica 
tion; and we hope that botanists will accord to the newly organized 
Company some portion of the credit for this attempt to meet their 
want s . 
Very tespectfully , 
