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-tance to the student of this difficult but very important natural order of plants. Most important to the agriculturist since it furnishes the principal sustenance of man and the domestic animals.

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Janesville, May 5, 1859.

I.A. Lapham, Esq.

Dear Sir--

Yours of April 12th was received last evening, I have been absent from home.*** By mistake your letter was not forwarded to me, and consequently has remained unanswered until now. In regard to the subject matter I most heartily coincide. We propose to obtain for our next volume of Transactions some articles of superior merit; and the subjects you suggest are very important ones and perhaps the most so of any at present, but the amount our "board" may think proper to set apart for the payment of such service has not been decided yet, but will be at our next meeting.*** In very great haste,

Very truly yours,

J.F. Willard.

P.S.? There is another subject upon which I should like an article, especially since our two hard winters have killed so many of our valuable fruit and ornamental trees; and that is what fruit and ornamental trees would be sure to stand our climate in view of our isothermal position, arrived at from the known facts of similar locations, this would necessarily involve researches into the history of plants &c., in like latitude of other countries.

Milwaukee May 16th, 1859.

Dear Sir

*** I was the first to decide from careful and long continued observations that there was a slight lunar tide on Lake Mich-