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also types of the more important foreign groups in the [herbarium?].
It will be extremely difficult for the teacher to provide such a collection after his appointment to active work in the University as he will be so closely confined by his class-room duties, and it would be of very great assistance in making the opening of the University a success to have such a collection made before that time.
I speak from experience, having been for the past ten years the professor of Botany in [the?] State University of Missouri