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p. 9-1143- 1859. J.F. Willard, Esq., Dear Sir-- I notice that the law, making the state appropriation, authorizes the application of the fund to "the prosecution of scientific investigations and experiments, and the collection and diffusion of information tending to developed the natural and agricultural resources of Wisconsin;" and as but little, if any, of the appropriation has heretofore been expended in this direction, it would not be improper to set off a fair share of the $3,000 for making such scientific investigations as will tend to develop and make known our vast agricultural resources. I propose to your society to make a regular Botanical survey of the state, reporting from time to time upon the natural resources of Wisconsin, so far as they depend on the vegetable Kingdom, for a compensation of $500 a year, payable half yearly. This would enable me to furnish for each of your future volumes articles like those on the Grasses, and on the Forest Trees, already published, in the 3d and 4th volumes. Or, I will prepare an article during the present year on the shrubs, or those woody plants that do not attain the dignity of trees, with suitable draw- | p. 9-1143- 1859. J.F. Willard, Esq., Dear Sir-- I notice that the law, making the state appropriation, authorizes the application of the fund to "the prosecution of scientific investigations and experiments, and the collection and diffusion of information tending to develope the natural and agricultural resources of Wisconsin;" and as but little, if any, of the appropriation has heretofore been expended in this direction, it would not be improper to set off a fair share of the $3,000 for making such scientific investigations as will tend to develope and make known our vast agricultural resources. I propose to your society to make a regular Botanical survey of the state, reporting from time to time upon the natural resources of Wisconsin, so far as they depend on the vegetable Kingdom, for a compensation of $500 a year, payable half yearly. This would enable me to furnish for each of your future volumes articles like those on the Grasses, and on the Forest Trees, already published, in the 3d and 4th volumes. Or, I will prepare an article during the present year on the shrubs, or those woody plants that do not attain the dignity of trees, with suitable draw- |