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-ings &c., for the sum of $500. Or, lastly, I will prepare an elaborate memoir [memoir?] on the subject of the "Climate of Wisconsin," with maps showing the isothermal lines &c., for the same compensation. This would require me to visit the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, where all the materials are collected and to spend some time there.

I may be excused for saying that it is such articles, published in the "Transactions" that give them permanent value, and make them desired by people abroad. The accompanying extract from Silliman's Journal of Science and Art may be adduced as evidence on this point.

Very respectfully yours,
I.A. Lapham.

From Silliman's Journal of Science and Art (vol. xix, page 442)--"Both as to the matter which they contain and the manner in which they are edited and printed The "Agricultural Transactions' of the young state of Wisconsin compare most favorable with those of any of the older states. *** At the close of the volume nearly one hundred pages are occupied by Mr. Lapham’s faithful and excellent account of the "Grasses of Wisconsin" prefaced by a general account of the family and a convenient artificial arrangement or key to the grasses of the northwestern states. The species are well described in plain botanical language, their qualities and uses indicated, good 8vo plates of eleven species are given each accompanied by magnified analyses of the parts of fructification and similar analyses of many more species are given on another plate. These are creditably executed from original drawings by Mr. Lapham himself, and they will afford invaluable assis-