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No 54 Licanora oreina with Licidia atwalba Blue Mounds, Wisc.
No 55. Placedium [Elifous?] on Limestone Blue Mounds Wisc.
No 56 [nantry?]
No 57. [Liciden parasema?], [var Catypea Ash?] on quartz Barraboo [Baraboo] Wisconsin
[Lycofurden germatum?]. No number
Mycelium of some unknown fungus no_
If you will be willing to spare me for a few days Prof Tuckeman's letter to you in which he communicated his [zenith?] I will return it very soon. Some little points which I do not now comprehend in your copy will be clear to me thereby.
The study of these specimens have been of great value to me & I shall always feel the amount of your generosity as a renewed instance of the Early courtesy which marked you in my first interview among the bushes and flowers of Ohio woods.
With our love & Esteem affectly Yr's John L. Russell
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PS. Mrs. R. has just come into the study and says "give my love to Julia & tell her, I have not forgotten her." to which I add neither have I.
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Milwaukee Sept 29th 1871
Dr Sir
Upon comparing the reports recently received here by telegraph from Cheyenne, with those from lower stations (Omaha, St Louis &c.) I find the barometer is uniformly reported too low; in the morning about 0.50 & in the afternoon about 0.60 of an inch.
This indicates that a corresponding addition must be made to the figures in the table of corrections for altitude. To enable me to find the amount of this additional correction for the different temperatures &c. I want a copy of the original observations (barometer, thermometer attached, wet and dry bulbs) as taken from the instruments, without any corrections, for the months of January and July for all the hours observed at Cheyenne, Omaha and St Louis.
It is quite probable we shall find that rail-road surveys from
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