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R.D. Irving Madison 22nd January Ans Feb 1
Dear Sir Can you let me have some more of those sheets of Chapman's maps? I wish to prepare a soil map. Mr. [illegible] will have complete five analyses for Major Brooks by the beginning of next week, when they will be furnished you. He has two finished now. I will do all I can at my report. I am working on it steadily.
Very truly yours, Roland D. Irving over
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Since writing the foregoing I have been down to the Artesian Well and find they have reached the old rock at a depth of about 750 feet having first passed through some six feet of a red shaly substance "which comes out like blood". I have samples of the powdered material, but as yet no fragments. Though I hope to get some. The contractors are a bad lot - one being a quite regular drunkard and they have done everything to hinder us from the first, although I took the precaution to get an introduction from a railway official during my absence in N.Y. They greeted the young man who went down for me with a bucket of water one day. I have had to rely on the workmen finding that the contractors were lying to me. The depth is just about the same as at the capitol and the rock the same from description. I have not heard if they propose going any further.
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Letter from A.R. Crandall to Increase Allen Lapham, January 24th
A.R. Crandall Ansd Jan 27
Lexington Ky Jan. 24, '75 I.A. Lapham Dept Wis Geol Survey Dr. Sir I am anxious to obtain any treatises that have been made on the Second Growth of Timber, and knowing that you have written on the [illegible] of Forest Growth. I take the direct liberty to ask whethe second growth has been printed of by you. Please also inform me under what title your researches on forest growth were published.
Respectfully A.R. Crandall [illegible] and Geologist Ky Geol Survey
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To Prof HH Babcock
Milwaukee January 25 1875
Dr Sir: I have received your circular with the notice of the proposed Botanical Gardens at Chicago, and am gratified to learn that they are to be established, and upon such a broad & liberal basis. Such gardens & museum would be visited by thousands who would be made better, happier and wiser for their visits. When fully established with a fire-proof building for the books and herbarium, povision for their care & preservation, you will find no difficulty in securing ample donations and opportunities for making exchanges.
