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Denver, Colo. Sept 1, 188[7?]
Hon. Leland Stanford
San Francisco, Cal.

Sir
In your plans for the "Leland Stanford Jr." University have arrangements been made for the equipment of the Botanical Department? If not permit me to suggest the importance of providing, in advance, the necessary material for illustration, as well as a class-room for that work. Whoever the teacher of Botany may be it will be impossible for him to accomplish satisfactory work without at least a good collection of California plants, and